Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare and wellness benefits

401K savings plan

Employee equity and ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to drive reliability and scalability of our global network infrastructure.

You will partner with software, operations and network teams to set standards, build automation, and influence designs across the product lifecycle. Ideal candidates have extensive distributed systems experience, strong Linux networking knowledge, and a track record in CI/CD and code quality leadership.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of experience in reliability, network engineering, software engineering or DevOps with distributed systems.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, or Puppet.
• Strong understanding of Linux networking and open source software like FRR, Bird, or goBGP.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI models, and routing/switching (Cisco/Juniper).
• Experience in development with Python, Bash, or Go and in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD).
• Proven ability to define product requirements and influence designs and standards.

Responsibilities

• Partner across teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and usability of network infrastructure and services.
• Define requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence designs and standards.
• Develop automation to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Define SLOs for Akamai Connected Cloud network infrastructure for high availability.
• Collaborate with Dev and QA to improve code quality and stability.
• Mentor team members and drive code quality and architectural decisions.

Skills

8+ yrs exp

Distributed systems

Python Bash Go

Networking concepts

CI/CD practices

Mentorship/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. You will be responsible for:

As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering 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.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent

• Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems

• Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar

• Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP

• Have an understanding of networking such as TCP/IP, OSI model, and Cisco or Juniper routers and switches

• Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go

• Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $146,400 - $263,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

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