Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud & Automation

Akamai Technologies GmbH; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies GmbH is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Compute services and infrastructure. You will join a highly skilled team and partner with cross-functional groups to improve reliability, observability, and performance of our cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, define requirements, automate daily tasks, participate in on-call rotations, and help troubleshoot incidents to minimize customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience automating with programming languages such as Python and/or Golang as well as scripting languages i.e. bash.
• Understand best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins.
• Hands-on mastery in Linux administration and container-based platforms like Docker.
• Proficiency with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, web proxies (e.g., nginx/envoy/haproxy), and performance optimization solutions such as Redis.

Responsibilities

• Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team.
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards.
• Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally.
• Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services.
• Improving our Compute Cloud Interface platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.
• Developing and improving automation to support daily activities and reduce toil.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Collaborating with internal teams to help troubleshoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers.

Skills

Python

Golang

bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SaltStack

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Akamai Technologies GmbH is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Compute services and infrastructure. You will join a highly skilled team and partner with cross-functional groups to improve reliability, observability, and performance of our cloud platforms.

You will mentor engineers, define requirements, automate daily tasks, participate in on-call rotations, and help troubleshoot incidents to minimize customer impact.