Remote SRE II: Cloud Networking & Security

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the reliability of our private networking, firewall, and IPSec gateway services. You will partner with software engineers, product, and operations teams to safely ship dataplane and control-plane changes across a global fleet.

You will implement automation, build monitoring, and runbooks, and contribute to SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway. Strong Linux networking and scripting skills are required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Site Reliability experience or similar
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, NAT, DNS
• Hands-on Linux networking and iptables/nftables
• Experience with Python or Shell scripting
• Familiarity with SaltStack or Ansible and Jenkins
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics
• Understanding deployment safety: phased rollouts and canaries
• Ability to work under moderate supervision and communicate during incidents

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day reliability of private networking and firewall services
• Automate rollout steps and health checks
• Build and maintain Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards
• Participate in on-call and incident triage
• Contribute to post-mortems and TRRs for new features
• Collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Linux networking

Packet-trace troubleshooting

Automation scripting (Python/Shell)

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Prometheus & Grafana

Incident response & on-call

Communication under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to own the reliability of our private networking, firewall, and IPSec gateway services. You will partner with software engineers, product, and operations teams to safely ship dataplane and control-plane changes across a global fleet.

You will implement automation, build monitoring, and runbooks, and contribute to SLOs for VPC, Cloud Firewall, and IPSec Gateway. Strong Linux networking and scripting skills are required.