Manager Site Reliability Engineering

Akamai; Canada; Remote; CAD 129,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Healthcare benefits

PTO

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering in Canada to lead a global team responsible for IAM services within Linode. You will mentor engineers, own product innovation, and drive agile SRE processes in a highly scalable environment.

As a leader, you will partner with stakeholders on roadmaps, shape architectural decisions, and ensure reliability, security, and performance across cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience leading and mentoring a team.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud-native tech and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Managing and mentoring a team of SRE engineers and unblocking team members with regards to technical and process hurdles.
• Partnering with stakeholders to understand and shape the product roadmap.
• Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, exercising design thinking, analyzing systems and developing solutions.
• Organizing and operating in an Agile environment to drive SRE activities.
• Focusing on team goals and building collaborative and effective working relationships through establishing commitments, accountability and trust.
• Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
• Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers

Skills

SRE experience

Team leadership

Cloud native

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Go

Python

Bash

Job description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have passion for cutting edge technologies?

Join our Compute Team!

Our Edge Technology's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll help lead our global team of SREs who manage & support our Linode's IAM (Identity and Access Management) services. Our SRE team works on tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability, scalability, security, and usability of Cloud IAM applications.

As a Manager Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Managing and mentoring a team of talented SRE engineers and unblocking team members with regards to technical and process hurdles.
• Partnering with stakeholders to understand and shape the product roadmap.
• Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, exercising design thinking, analyzing systems and developing solutions.
• Organizing and operating in an Agile environment to drive SRE activities.
• Focusing on team goals and building collaborative and effective working relationships through establishing commitments, accountability and trust.
• Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practices
• Diagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Possess experience in SRE or Development role, working with large scale distributed systems.
• Have experience leading and mentoring a team.
• Have experience building with cloud native technologies and cloud deployments at scale.
• Demonstrate experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containers, etc), Go, Python, or Bash scripting
• Be familiar with software development practices and product life cycles through build, test, deploy, and iterative environments.

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 beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 129,400 - 232,800 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Job Info

• Job Identification 3993
• Posting Date 10/05/2026, 05:43 PM
• Locations 343 Preston Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1N4, CA (Remote)