Lead Network SRE & Automation Architect

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design and scale our global network infrastructure and services.

You will mentor engineers, define deployment standards, build automation, and partner with software and operations teams to ensure high availability and performance in Akamai Connected Cloud. You will lead SLO definitions, tooling development (Bash, Python, Go), and participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts.
• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar
• Experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP
• Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.
• Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
• Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly
• Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

SRE experience

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Bash

Rust

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. seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design and scale our global network infrastructure and services.

You will mentor engineers, define deployment standards, build automation, and partner with software and operations teams to ensure high availability and performance in Akamai Connected Cloud. You will lead SLO definitions, tooling development (Bash, Python, Go), and participate in on-call rotations to resolve incidents.