Remote SRE II: Cloud Networking & Firewall

Akamai Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services. You will work with software engineering, product, and operations teams to ship dataplane and control-plane changes safely across a global fleet.

You’ll run release rollouts, automate operational toil, build monitoring, and troubleshoot customer-impacting networking issues with Python, Shell, SaltStack, and standard networking tools;

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• 2 years of relevant experience.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, subnets, routing, NAT, DNS).
• Hands-on Linux networking experience and tools.
• Experience with automation and CI/CD.
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing phased rollouts of VPC and Cloud Firewall dataplane binaries and feature-flag enablements.
• Operating and troubleshooting private networking (subnets, routing, overlay/encapsulation) and stateful firewall rule enforcement on Linux hosts.
• Supporting operation and readiness of the IPSec Gateway and Multi-Cloud Networking services, including tunnel health, IKE/IPsec negotiation issues, and cross-cloud connectivity.
• Automating rollout steps, health checks, and recurring operational tasks using Python, Shell, and SaltStack.
• Building and maintaining Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, alerts, and runbooks; support and improve SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway.
• Joining on-call and incident triage for networking issues, drive mitigation to reduce MTTR, and contribute to post-mortem reviews and follow-up actions.
• Contributing to Technical Readiness Reviews (TRRs) for new features, and keep SOPs and team knowledge bases current.

Skills

Networking

Linux

Python

SaltStack

Ansible

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Incident response

TCP/IP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

tcpdump

Wireshark

tshark

iptables/nftables

conntrack

Job description

Akamai Technologies is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services. You will work with software engineering, product, and operations teams to ship dataplane and control-plane changes safely across a global fleet.

You’ll run release rollouts, automate operational toil, build monitoring, and troubleshoot customer-impacting networking issues with Python, Shell, SaltStack, and standard networking tools;