Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Lensa; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Lensa seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join Akamai's Mapping SRE Team, responsible for enhancing system reliability and performance. The role demands collaboration across teams, management of service indicators, and expertise in engineering principles. Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree and significant SRE experience, alongside strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive benefit plans

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
• Experience in programming or scripting languages.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and track Service Level Indicators and Objectives.
• Design automation frameworks to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure system reliability.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Python

Go

SQL

Monitoring

Logging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

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Lensa is a career site that helps job seekers find great jobs in the US. We are not a staffing firm or agency. Lensa does not hire directly for these jobs, but promotes jobs on LinkedIn on behalf of its direct clients, recruitment ad agencies, and marketing partners. Lensa partners with DirectEmployers to promote this job for Akamai.

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our Mapping SRE Team!

Our team is responsible for overseeing Akamai's mapping system and working cross-functionally to improve its availability, reliability, performance, observability, and change management procedures. Our team defines key performance indicators (KPIs), advances the state of measurements, monitoring dashboards, alerts and operational responses, and investigates complex production issues.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand and improve the performance, availability and reliability of Akamai's Mapping service. You'll define key performance indicators (KPIs), advance the state of monitoring, alerting and operational responses, and investigate complex performance issues.

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

• Defining, manage, and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for product performance and availability.
• Designing and implementing automation frameworks to reduce sources of operational toil improving system efficiency and eliminating manual and repetitive tasks.
• Collaborating with product engineering teams to promote and implement system designs that prioritize scalability, supportability, resilience, and reliability.
• Implementing and optimize monitoring, alerting, and logging tools to mitigate issues proactively and recommend improvements.
• Partnering with internal teams to diagnose and resolve critical incidents, ensuring prompt and effective resolution and system reliability.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Have proven and extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role.
• Have experience in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• Exhibit proficiency in SQL and analyzing data for trends to support decision-making, troubleshooting and system optimization.
• Have experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Have In-depth understanding of computer networking concepts, Unix/Linux internals, distributed systems, and systems design.
• Have excellent communication and organizational skills, be able to articulate technical information in an easy to understand manner.
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Learn (https://www.akamai.com/careers) what makes Akamai a great place to work

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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

Benefits

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors
  
  

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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