Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Remote

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and ensuring customer success?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our critical Platform and Reliability Engineering team

The Platform & Reliability Engineering team is responsible for defining, measuring, & optimizing the key performance indicators of our web and media customers. Working with engineering teams we solve complex escalations as well as provide scalable solutions.

Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers

As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will influence a wide array of teams. Through technical depth and breadth while enjoying a significant influence over front-line teams in decision-making. One will help account teams win their customer confidence. This will be done by providing feedback to improve products and platform performance.

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

Working on Internet technologies to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems

Identifying potential problems to and creating scalable solutions to ensure continuous improvements to quality of service

Working with teams to specify feature sets aimed at improving performance. Also for facilitating measurement, & monitoring.

Using data analysis, network diagnostics, and debugging tools to monitor global, distributed network and content delivery environment

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

Demonstrate experience with internet protocols, (DNS, HTTP, TCP, TLS, SSH) or one scripting language (Python, Perl, shell).

Demonstrate experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments

Demonstrate analytical and quantitative capabilities to provide data-backed analysis using big data systems like Hive, Spark.

Have familiarity with streaming technologies such as Encoding, Video Players, Media Security, Streaming Protocols, and Media Workflows.

Have familiarity with streaming technologies such as Encoding, Video Players, Media Security, Streaming Protocols, and Media Workflows.

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.

what makes Akamai a great place to work

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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!

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