Senior Network Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and operate scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. You will mentor staff, define deployment standards, and drive automation and reliability across global platforms.

Role requires deep TCP/IP, BGP, and firewall expertise, plus hands-on scripting in Python/Go/Bash and experience with Ansible, CI/CD tools, and open-source networking software. On-call rotations are included.

Qualifications

• 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience.
• Experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts.
• 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.
• Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.
• Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly
• Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations.

Skills

SRE / Network Reliability

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Python

Go

Rust

Bash

Linux userspace networking

CI/CD

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience

Tools

Python

Bash

Go

Rust

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and operate scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. You will mentor staff, define deployment standards, and drive automation and reliability across global platforms.

Role requires deep TCP/IP, BGP, and firewall expertise, plus hands-on scripting in Python/Go/Bash and experience with Ansible, CI/CD tools, and open-source networking software. On-call rotations are included.