Senior II Network Reliability Engineer - Remote/Hybrid

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Jackson (MS); 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. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and performance of Akamai Connected Cloud network infrastructure and services.

You will collaborate with software development, operations, and network teams to define standards, build automation, and influence design decisions. There is a strong emphasis on code quality and mentoring peers across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role with large-scale distributed systems.
• Advanced 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 reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with CI/CD 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

SRE Experience

Distributed Systems

Python/Bash/Go

Linux Networking

TCP/IP & OSI

CI/CD Tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to join our global team. The role focuses on reliability, scalability, and performance of Akamai Connected Cloud network infrastructure and services.

You will collaborate with software development, operations, and network teams to define standards, build automation, and influence design decisions. There is a strong emphasis on code quality and mentoring peers across disciplines.