Senior Network SRE & Automation Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Hybrid work options

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 engineers, define deployment standards, and develop automation with Bash, Python, and other languages to maintain high availability. You will collaborate across software, operations, and compute stakeholders to uphold SLOs, investigate complex network issues, and contribute to code reviews and

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience or equivalent
• Experience in Site/Network Reliability, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps with large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts
• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet)
• Experience with Linux networking and open source networking software (FRR, Bird, goBGP)
• Experience developing apps, contributing to codebases, code reviews, and scripting (Python, Bash, Go, Rust)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD)

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and support solutions for efficient processes
• Mentor team members and drive code quality and architectural standards
• Collaborate on deployment standards and update documentation
• Develop automation tools (Bash scripts, Python, Slack bots) with network developers
• Define SLOs for network infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
• Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering to troubleshoot complex network problems and participate in on-call rotations

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Scripting: Python/Bash/Go/Rust

CI/CD experience

Linux networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

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 engineers, define deployment standards, and develop automation with Bash, Python, and other languages to maintain high availability. You will collaborate across software, operations, and compute stakeholders to uphold SLOs, investigate complex network issues, and contribute to code reviews and