Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

14h•$121,400 - $218,600•Hybrid

About The Position

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services and compute hardware. You will drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. In this role, you'll focus on developing and implementing automation and efficiency of the Akamai compute infrastructure and services. This requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise on Linux, hardware, and performance tuning.

Requirements

5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
Experience with architecting hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale
Possess expert-level experience in a Development or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
Ability to align with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
Demonstrate excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table

Responsibilities

Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
Engaging with our support, operations, hardware, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortem reviews
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues