Senior Network Reliability Engineer – Remote/Hybrid

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and maintain scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, set standards, and drive automation across deployments with a strong emphasis on availability and performance. The role requires deep networking knowledge, extensive experience in SRE/DevOps practices, and proficiency with modern configuration and CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience in a Site/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 continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and support 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

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Config management

FRR/Bird/goBGP

Python/Bash/Go/Rust

CI/CD tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

SaltStack

Chef

Puppet

Jenkins

Github Actions

ArgoCD

GoBGP

FRR

Bird

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and maintain scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teams, set standards, and drive automation across deployments with a strong emphasis on availability and performance. The role requires deep networking knowledge, extensive experience in SRE/DevOps practices, and proficiency with modern configuration and CI/CD tooling.