Remote-Friendly Senior Network SRE: Automation & Reliability Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to join our global team. You will partner with software, operations, and network teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of Akamai Connected Cloud networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities include defining requirements, building automation for CI/CD, and setting SLOs. You will mentor peers and drive architectural decisions while collaborating to deliver robust, scalable network solutions at

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE/Network reliability.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with Linux networking and open source networking software (FRR, Bird, goBGP).
• Understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI, Cisco/Juniper).
• Experience developing applications and scripting (Python, Bash, Go); code review.

Responsibilities

• Partner across teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and usability of network infrastructure, products, and services.
• Define requirements to influence designs and standards across the product lifecycle.
• Develop automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Define SLOs for network infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with Dev and QA to improve code quality and stability.
• Mentor team members and drive code quality; provide architectural leadership.

Skills

Distributed systems

DevOps practices

Programming: Python Bash Go

Linux networking

Networking basics

Code collaboration & review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to join our global team. You will partner with software, operations, and network teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of Akamai Connected Cloud networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities include defining requirements, building automation for CI/CD, and setting SLOs. You will mentor peers and drive architectural decisions while collaborating to deliver robust, scalable network solutions at