Principal Network SRE & Reliability Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design, build and support scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, set quality standards, and drive architectural decisions across deployments. You will define SLOs, collaborate with cross-functional groups, and create automation tools using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

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

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

Linux networking

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Python

Bash

Go

Rust

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to design, build and support scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, set quality standards, and drive architectural decisions across deployments. You will define SLOs, collaborate with cross-functional groups, and create automation tools using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust to improve reliability and performance.