Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 121,400 - 218,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Vacation (PTO)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Annapolis, Maryland. You will collaborate with teams to design and manage critical infrastructure for Akamai Cloud, focusing on automation, IAC, and CI/CD.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. You will enhance system reliability, implement observability solutions, and be a trusted mentor.

Compensation ranges from $121,400 to $218,600/year based on experience, with robust benefits including healthcare and PTO.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced experience designing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Extensive development skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline security and compliance.
• Advanced experience in site reliability or software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate critical services for reliability and performance.
• Implement monitoring and alerting capabilities.
• Drive reliability improvements through automation.
• Mentor engineers on IAC best practices.
• Lead incident response efforts during on-call rotations.

Skills

Configuration management

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

Python

Go

Bash

Automation

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

SaltStack

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will focus on configuration management, IAC, and CI/CD. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure deployment for the Akamai Cloud.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, developing, testing, and operating critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Driving reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.
• Developing deep technical expertise in IAC systems and serving as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices
• Collaborating with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long‑term corrective actions.
• Participating in an on‑call rotation and providing leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post‑incident improvement efforts.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• Possess advanced experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Have extensive development skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Have experience integrating security, compliance, and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, artifact management, and deployment strategies
• Utilize tools such as SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage infrastructure as code effectively and efficiently.
• Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large‑scale distributed systems.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only – the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 to $218,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry‑leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family‑friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program with a focus on mental and financial wellness; eligibility requirements apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an affirmatively action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.