Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Perform site reliability engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms; deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems; analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network; automate new cloud service deployments; monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available; analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation; work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure; quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, IT, Information Systems, or Telecommunications Engineering
- Two (2) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role
- Two (2) years of experience with programming with scripting languages such as Java, Perl, and Python
- Two (2) years of experience with network technologies such as HTTP, TCP/IP, and TLS/SSL
- Two (2) years of experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
- Two (2) years of experience with software debugging
- Two (2) years of experience with large-scale distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Perform site reliability engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms
- Deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems
- Analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network
- Automate new cloud service deployments
- Monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available
- Analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation
- Work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure
- Quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues
Benefits
- healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- company holidays
- vacation (in the form of PTO)
- sick time
- parental leave
- employee assistance program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
