Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Compute Platform Services Team)

Devopsroles; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux) to develop automation and improve operational excellence across internal teams. You will work on deploying software components, troubleshooting complex issues, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure at scale.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in Linux-based systems engineering or DevOps, proficiency in Python or Golang, and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, and observability tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in a Systems engineering, DevOps, or software engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Develop processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
• Participate in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Improve monitoring and analysis platforms to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Configuration management

Performance optimization

Hardware engineering

Python

Golang

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

Observability

AWS

GCP

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Datadog

Splunk

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team.

The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services to enhance global daily experiences.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams. Responsibilities include advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure. Success requires innovative thinking and expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance optimization, and hardware engineering.

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

• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
• Participating in on‑call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
• Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands‑on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Gain experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative.

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.

Benefits at Akamai:

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