Site Reliability Engineer II

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Job Description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We focus on creating solutions to improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams, while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will create solutions to improve automation and efficiencies across teams. Your responsibilities include driving automation, operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure. This requires creative thinking and deep domain expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities of a Site Reliability Engineer II include :

• Defining requirements during the product lifecycle to influence design and standards.
• Collaborating with support, operations, and engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems.
• Enhancing system monitoring and analysis platforms to speed error detection and improve performance and reliability.

What You Need to Succeed

• Demonstrate knowledge at least at LFCS certificate level (certificate not required but knowledge mandatory).
• Relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• High-level experience in Linux / Unix SysAdmin, DevOps, or Software engineering with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with SaltStack or willingness to learn; knowledge of programming languages like Python or Golang; experience with Terraform is a plus.
• Experience in architecting software and infrastructure at scale.

Work in a way that works for you

Akamai's FlexBase program offers flexible working arrangements, including working from home, the office, or both, tailored to individual needs. We encourage you to discuss your preferences with your recruiter.

Why Join Us?

At Akamai, we power and protect online life by solving tough challenges. We value diversity, innovation, and collaboration, aiming to make a meaningful difference. Our teams are global, customer-centric, and committed to creating the best workplace.

We offer opportunities to grow and benefits covering health, finances, family, work-life balance, and personal pursuits, designed to meet your individual needs.

About Us

Akamai enables companies worldwide to build, deliver, and secure digital experiences. With our distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, we make application development easier and experiences closer to users while keeping threats at bay.

Join Us

If you're looking to make a difference in a global company with exciting services and clients, join us and grow with a passionate team.

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