Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Automation & Kubernetes

Akamai Career Site; Polska; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Krakow to design, automate and maintain scalable infrastructure for AI compute services. You will help optimize workflows, deploy, monitor, and resolve incidents with a focus on reliability and efficiency across large distributed systems.

You will mentor other engineers, develop automated tooling, improve monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to capacity planning and autoscaling for AI

Qualifications

• Expert level experience in a SysAdmin/Linux/DevOps or SRE role with large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems.
• Experience with Python or Go and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible.
• Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale.
• Demonstrate accountability for reliability and automation.

Responsibilities

• Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department.
• Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.
• Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response.
• Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure.

Skills

Linux administration

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Python

Golang

Terraform

Ansible

SaltStack

Observability

SLOs

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Krakow to design, automate and maintain scalable infrastructure for AI compute services. You will help optimize workflows, deploy, monitor, and resolve incidents with a focus on reliability and efficiency across large distributed systems.

You will mentor other engineers, develop automated tooling, improve monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to capacity planning and autoscaling for AI