Senior Network SRE: Scale, Reliability & Automation

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to strengthen our global network infrastructure and contribute to the Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will collaborate across software development, operations, and network teams to establish standards, improve tooling, and ensure high availability. You will define SLOs, build automation, and participate in architectural decisions while mentoring teammates and promoting best practices across the

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SRE/Network reliability experience

Distributed systems

CI/CD tooling

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network to strengthen our global network infrastructure and contribute to the Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will collaborate across software development, operations, and network teams to establish standards, improve tooling, and ensure high availability. You will define SLOs, build automation, and participate in architectural decisions while mentoring teammates and promoting best practices across the