Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai • United States,

8d • $146,400 - $263,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems
• 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, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar

Responsibilities

• Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our network infrastructure, 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 network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud 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 including participation in on-call rotations.
• Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.

Benefits

• healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• company holidays
• vacation (in the form of PTO)
• sick time
• family friendly benefits including parental leave
• employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior