Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Career Site

72d • $126,100 - $261,900

About The Position

Join our highly-skilled Site Reliability team! Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that supports Akamai's Compute, CDN, and security products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Requirements

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience in developing solutions using Python, bash, or other languages.
• Experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP.
• Experience working with and analyzing complex systems in Linux, VM, and Kubernetes production environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate technical information clearly.
• Excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform system analysis and troubleshooting, assess performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations.
• Test for inefficiencies and errors and write software or infrastructure fixes.
• Design and collaborate to build automation or provide self-service tools.
• Leverage skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and capacity of large-scale distributed systems.
• Design, manage and track Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance.
• Investigate proactively and analyze platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage.
• Collaborate with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation (in the form of PTO)
• Sick time
• Family friendly benefits including parental leave
• Employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees