Remote Senior Network Reliability Engineer II

Akamai; United States; Remote; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

FlexBase program

Remote/Hybrid work options

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to join our remote-friendly team in the United States. You will partner across software, operations and network teams to ensure reliability and scalability of our network infrastructure and services.

You will define requirements, develop automation for CI/CD, set SLOs, and mentor peers while shaping architectural standards for Akamai Connected Cloud. The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership and strategic impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Network Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps with large-scale distributed systems.
• 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.
• Understanding of networking such as TCP/IP, OSI model, and Cisco or Juniper routers and switches.
• Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Partner across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our network infrastructure, products, and services.
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards.
• Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
• Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability.
• Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Automation & tooling

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

similar

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to join our remote-friendly team in the United States. You will partner across software, operations and network teams to ensure reliability and scalability of our network infrastructure and services.

You will define requirements, develop automation for CI/CD, set SLOs, and mentor peers while shaping architectural standards for Akamai Connected Cloud. The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership and strategic impact.