Lead Network SRE & Architect - Remote/Hybrid

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Lincoln, NE seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design, build, and secure high‑availability network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, drive code quality, implement automation with Python, Bash, and Go, and set deployment standards across a global platform.

Join a world‑class team focused on performance, scale, and reliability, with industry‑leading benefits and a comprehensive compensation package.

Qualifications

• 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes
• Mentoring team members, driving code quality standards and architectural thought leadership
• Collaborating on deployment standards and updating documentation
• Building automation tools with Python, Bash, Go or Rust and working with network developers
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
• Investigating and troubleshooting complex network problems including on-call rotations

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Python

Bash

Go

Rust

Linux networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Lincoln, NE seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design, build, and secure high‑availability network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, drive code quality, implement automation with Python, Bash, and Go, and set deployment standards across a global platform.

Join a world‑class team focused on performance, scale, and reliability, with industry‑leading benefits and a comprehensive compensation package.