Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test

Akamai • Cambridge, MA

1d • CA$120,400 - CA$216,600 • Remote

About The Position

Join our Compute division's Platform Engineering Team! Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. Our work environment nurtures innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication. This is a collaborative team building and scaling Service Mesh, Data Abstraction APIs, Control plane and other cloud native platform services. We encourage and reward curiosity, ingenuity, and technical excellence. As a Senior SDET II, you will automate the SDLC pipeline from testing through deployment and validation.

Requirements

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Possess solid expertise in cloud native infrastructure, and have an understanding of system internals and performance
• Demonstrate experience in building Kubernetes workflows and testing products built on Kubernetes platform
• Have experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, Github Actions, SaltStack
• Have solid Linux fundamentals, especially around performance tuning
• Demonstrate solid Bash and scripting fundamentals
• Have deep knowledge of network fundamentals (VRF, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, etc.)
• Have an understanding of modern software development life cycle processes and service level objective monitoring and alerting

Responsibilities

• Working with engineering teams to identify how to test proposed changes
• Investigating and troubleshooting any deployment-related issues, identifying root causes and providing recommendations for solutions in various environments
• Developing and maintaining automated test frameworks for code changes, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests
• Creating and maintaining test plans and test cases for platform tools (i.e. Service Mesh, APIs, Control plane) to cover relevant scenarios and edge cases
• Collaborating in integration testing with other engineering groups and suggesting improvements to various testing environments
• Investigating requirements for safe deployment and rollback strategies, and verifying all requirements during the deployment process
• Writing and maintaining scripts to automate platform service deployment

Benefits

• healthcare
• RRSP
• company holidays
• vacation (in the form of PTO)
• sick time
• family friendly benefits
• employee assistance program
• focus on mental and financial wellness

What This Job Offers

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