Overview Join our critical SRE team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute, CDN, and security products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Responsibilities As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will perform system analysis and troubleshooting, assess performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations. Having identified improvements, you'll work with engineering and the SRE teams to implement new features and products.
Testing inefficiencies and fragilities and write software or infrastructure fixes. You must be fluent in both software code and IaC.
Designing and work with Engineering or the SRE team to build automation or provide self-service tools.
Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and capacity of large-scale distributed systems.
Designing, managing and tracking Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance.
Investigating proactively and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage.
Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers.
Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity.
What You Love to Do / Qualifications Have relevant experience and knowledge in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline.
Demonstrate experience in developing solutions Python, Bash, or other languages.
Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP.
Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in Linux, VM, and Kubernetes production environments.
Show excellent communication skills and articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner.
Display excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks.
Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solve problems and have a drive to improve results.
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. We offer flexible working options to many employees, including the ability to work from home, in the office, or both where available. We are happy to discuss working options for this role with your recruiter during the application process.
Benefits Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. They cover all aspects of your life, including :
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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