Remote SRE - Networking & Cloud Firewall Specialist

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II in Cambridge, MA to own day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services.

You will collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams to safely ship changes across a global fleet and automate toil. This role emphasizes phased rollouts, monitoring, incident response, and contributing to TRRs and SOPs.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant experience in a networking/SRE role.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, NAT, DNS.
• Hands-on Linux networking experience with containers and networking tooling.
• Experience writing automation in Python or Shell; orchestration tools like SaltStack/Ansible.
• Familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute phased rollouts of VPC and Cloud Firewall dataplane and features.
• Operate and troubleshoot private networking and stateful firewall rules on Linux hosts.
• Support IPSec Gateway and Multi-Cloud Networking readiness and health.
• Automate rollout steps and health checks using Python, Shell, SaltStack.
• Build and maintain Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
• Participate in on-call and incident triage; contribute to post-mortems.
• Contribute to TRRs for new features and maintain SOPs and knowledge bases.

Skills

Phased rollouts

Linux networking

IPSec & multi-cloud

Automation (Python/Shell)

Prometheus & Grafana

On-call & incident triage

TRRs & SOPs

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Network troubleshooting tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Jenkins

tcpdump

Wireshark/tshark

iptables/nftables

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II in Cambridge, MA to own day-to-day reliability of private networking, firewall, and IPSec Gateway services.

You will collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams to safely ship changes across a global fleet and automate toil. This role emphasizes phased rollouts, monitoring, incident response, and contributing to TRRs and SOPs.