Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Devopsroles; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai’s Site Reliability Engineering team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure for the Akamai Cloud. Senior SREs help ensure reliability, security, and performance at scale across a global fleet, with a focus on automation and observability.

As part of the ACDC SRE team, you will collaborate with software, infrastructure, and platform groups to deploy, monitor, and improve systems. On-call rotation and post-incident follow-ups are part of the role.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with large-scale infrastructure and reliability engineering.
• Strong automation and configuration management skills.
• Experience with Linux-based environments and scripting.
• Familiarity with on-call incident response and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate essential services to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure systems.
• Develop observability solutions: monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry, and incident preemption.
• Enhance reliability through automation and reduced toil across engineering processes.
• Build deep expertise in Akamai Cloud (ACDC) systems and guide teams in best practices.
• Collaborate with software, infrastructure, and platform teams to resolve production issues and implement solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide technical guidance during incidents and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Ansible expertise

Automation experience

Linux systems

On-call experience

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

SaltStack

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies?

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

As a member of our ACDC SRE team, you will design, develop, and operate application and infrastructure deployment, configuration, and change orchestration for the Akamai Cloud.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be:

• Designing, developing, testing, and operating essential services to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of infrastructure systems.
• Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry, to identify and address issues before customer impact.
• Enhancing reliability via automation, minimizing operational toil, and boosting resilience within engineering processes.
• Developing extensive expertise in ACDC systems and acting as a reliable resource, guiding engineers and sharing effective practices team-wide.
• Collaborating closely with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to resolve complex production issues, determine root causes, and implement solutions.
• Participating in an on-call rotation and delivering technical expertise during incidents, ensuring prompt restoration, clear communication, and post-incident enhancements.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in Ansible through playbook development, role creation, automation workflows, and enterprise-scale configuration management processes.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing tools like Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or comparable technologies effectively and efficiently.
• Design, develop, and deploy software and infrastructure at scale within a Linux environment with advanced-level expertise.
• Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Have great communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

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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