Cloud Networking SRE II — Remote/Hybrid, Firewall & VPN

Akamai; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance

Job summary

Join Akamai as a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services. You’ll collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams to ship dataplane and control-plane changes safely across a global fleet.

You will build monitoring, automate toil, and participate in on-call incident triage, driving MTTR reductions while improving SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Strong networking knowledge: TCP/IP, subnetting, L2/L3 routing, NAT, DNS, and stateful firewalling.
• Hands-on Linux networking experience: network namespaces, bridges, virtual interfaces, iptables/nftables, and connection tracking.
• Packet-level troubleshooting with tcpdump and Wireshark/tshark, ip, ss, traceroute, and mtr.
• Experience writing automation in Python or Shell, and with SaltStack or Ansible and CI/CD (Jenkins).
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
• Understanding deployment safety: phased rollouts, canaries, feature flags, validation, rollback.
• Ability to work with moderate supervision and communicate during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing phased rollouts of VPC and Cloud Firewall dataplane binaries and feature-flag enablements
• Operating and troubleshooting private networking (subnets, routing, overlay/encapsulation) and stateful firewall rule enforcement on Linux hosts.
• Supporting operation and readiness of the IPSec Gateway and Multi-Cloud Networking services, including tunnel health, IKE/IPsec negotiation issues, and cross-cloud connectivity.
• Automating rollout steps, health checks, and recurring operational tasks using Python, Shell, and SaltStack.
• Building and maintaining Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, alerts, and runbooks; support and improve SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway.
• Joining on-call and incident triage for networking issues, drive mitigation to reduce MTTR, and contribute to post-mortem reviews and follow-up actions.
• Contributing to Technical Readiness Reviews (TRRs) for new features, and keep SOPs and team knowledge bases current.

Skills

Networking concepts

Linux

Python

Automation

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

SRE basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Join Akamai as a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services. You’ll collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams to ship dataplane and control-plane changes safely across a global fleet.

You will build monitoring, automate toil, and participate in on-call incident triage, driving MTTR reductions while improving SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway.