Senior Release Engineer

Are you excited about working on cutting-edge technologies?

Are you a fast learner, fascinated to drive agile teams, connect, and deliver
products?

Join our Akamai Cloud Technology group - Edge Apps team

We are a team shaping Akamai's vision for exceptional digital experiences.
Responsibilities include designing interfaces, applications, APIs, and services.
Efforts focus on enabling customers and stakeholders to develop software using
top internal and external technologies.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Release Engineer, develop tools, enhance automation, and establish
procedures for safe release cycles. Facilitate interactions and build technical
capabilities to ensure adherence to release schedules.

As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for:

* Designing and implementing tools and pipelines to automate deployments and
releases.
* Managing and facilitating engineering and release plans, execution and
workflows.
* Collaborating with other teams to influence and shape an agile culture across
our group.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

* Possess 4+ years of relevant experience and equivalent qualifications in
Engineering or Management Information Systems
* Be an experienced facilitator with excellent verbal and written communication
skills. Able to coordinate and plan activities of multiple teams
* Have fundamental Software Engineering skills: Python code building,
scripting, documentation maintenance
* Be aligned with DevOps principles and know how to build and extend automation
environments
* Demonstrate expertise with CI/CD, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git-based
version control, GitLab DevOps, and monitoring tools like Grafana, Datadog.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your
favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes.
We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the
giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the
internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's
most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because
behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're
the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures
it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life
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