Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux)

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology
organization?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team.

The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure
supporting Akamai's Compute products and services to enhance global daily
experiences.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing
solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams.
Responsibilities include advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence,
and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure. Success requires
innovative thinking and expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration
management, performance optimization, and hardware engineering.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

* Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate
and troubleshoot complex problems.
* Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software
components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
* Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of
service-impacting issues.
* Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error
detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

* Have 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer
Science or related field
* Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or
Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
* Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale
automations.
* Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with
SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
* Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus,
Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk.
* Gain experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an
equivalent alternative.

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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