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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Network Infra

Akamai

Job Description

Posted on: 
November 18, 2024

Summary and company overview

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Responsibilities

  • Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
  • Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards
  • Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows
  • Defining SLOs for our compute infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
  • Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability
  • Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications

  • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent experience
  • Have professional experience in a Site or Network Reliability, Software Engineering, DevOps, or Network Engineering role working with large-scale distributed systems
  • Have extensive experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, or similar
  • Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar
  • Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP
  • Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, and writing scripts

Preferred Qualifications

NA

Additional commentary

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $106,600 - $221,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Summary and company overview

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Apply now