Senior II SRE: Cloud-Native, Kubernetes, Scale (Hybrid/Remote)

Devopsroles; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Comprehensive health and benefits

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, build, and scale of a next generation control plane on a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built with Kubernetes and cloud-native tech.

You will drive automation, establish SLOs/KPIs, and participate in on-call rotations while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar field) or equivalent experience
• Experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Solid understanding of Linux internals, containerization and networking
• Code-first approach to operating infrastructure and automation to reduce toil
• Go programming language knowledge; Python or Bash scripting for automation
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with modern observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the development and operation of a globally-deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
• Building automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
• Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

SRE

Linux internals

Containerization

Networking

Go

Python/Bash scripting

IaC tooling

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar)

Tools

Crossplane

Pulumi

Terraform

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, build, and scale of a next generation control plane on a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built with Kubernetes and cloud-native tech.

You will drive automation, establish SLOs/KPIs, and participate in on-call rotations while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.