Senior II Software Engineer

Akamai•Ottawa, ON

1d•CA$120,400 - CA$216,600•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our Compute Lab Team! The Compute Lab Team mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable our developers to build the next generation of the Akamai Cloud. As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will collaborate with development and site reliability teams in building and managing mission-critical critical lab infrastructure services and environments for the Akamai Connected Cloud platform. You'll contribute directly to scaling our infrastructure and management tools driving development and testing improvements felt throughout our entire organization.

Requirements

5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.
Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation and related tooling (e.g., Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible).
Demonstrated background using Python and RESTful API frameworks, including Flask and Django
Experience in container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Nomad and dev-environment tooling (Kind, Docker Compose, Tilt).
Comfortable working with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.

Responsibilities

Developing the deployment stack responsible for building new test datacenters on the Lab Platform.
Designing monitoring solutions with new and existing observability tooling to ensure the health of our Lab Services.
Identifying bottlenecks with deployment and configuration frameworks, proposing solutions that improve performance and reliability.
Collaborating with senior engineers, architects and subject matter experts on solutions that increase the speed and confidence in which they ship products.
Working on a highly collaborative global team that values feedback and open communication