Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Remote

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large-scale systems problems?

Join our highly visible Security Engineering team!

Our team is part of Akamai’s Security organization, responsible for developing products and platforms focused on security. We create Fast Data Planes in an SDN system integrating dynamic Network Application products. We protect customers against growing threats of cyber-attacks and cyber terrorism.

Partner with the best

As an SRE, you will ensure optimal performance and up-time of our production security infrastructure. And developing & automating production toil backlog. Analyzing system performance end-to-end, with a focus on the back-end, capacity, and infrastructure elements. You will automate deployment and configuration workflows, and define SRE requirements for applications and services. You will also help maintain network stability.

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

Reducing the manual toil by coding scalable automated solutions

Implementing and improving monitoring-alerting with speed error detection & remediation, enhancing reliability, and making self-healing systems

Doing capacity planning for our DDOS platform involving bare metals, VMs, routers, switches, and application layers

Reporting in real-time, platform performance and collaborating with teams to investigate and troubleshoot problems

Identifying gaps in monitoring followed by defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing them

Handling incidents and problem management (RCA) along with timely communications

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have a bachelor’s degree in CS, CSE, MIS, or a related field or 9 years of experience

Have knowledge of computer networking and internet protocols. Have experience with Python or any similar scripting language

Have an understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines and automation tools- Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, CloudFront, Kubernetes, or similar

Able to gather monitoring/alerting/KPI requirements and design them

Have experience with automating tasks. Experience with Prometheus for alerting, Grafana, and any alerting tools

Able to work APAC/EMEA shifts to have enough overlap with NA teams

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai’s Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

Your health

Your finances

Your family

Your time at work

Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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