Site Reliability Engineer II - Cloud Networking - Remote

Akamai Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will collaborate with operations and development teams to enhance system reliability and performance. Your expertise in monitoring tools and networking technologies will be crucial as you tackle complex challenges and improve existing systems. This position offers the opportunity to work flexibly, allowing you to choose your work environment while contributing to impactful projects that benefit millions globally. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Vacation (PTO)

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in a related field and a Bachelor's Degree.
• Understanding of monitoring tools and networking technologies.

Responsibilities

• Deploying and maintaining internal platforms and tools.
• Collaborating with teams to ensure product reliability and usability.
• Improving system monitoring and troubleshooting complex issues.

Skills

Monitoring and logging tools

Networking technologies

Analytics and troubleshooting skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus

Nagios

Grafana

Loki

Job description

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Job Description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting-edge technologies and tackling system problems?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best. In this role, you will collaborate with our operations and development teams. Together, you will be creating tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems. You will work with various technologies as we release brand new applications and modernize our existing tooling.

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

• Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally.
• Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, and usability of our products and services.
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement, and stability.

Do What You Love. To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience.
• Possess an understanding of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Nagios, Grafana, or Loki.
• Have experience and knowledge with networking technologies such as routing, firewall, and DNS.
• Possess analytics and troubleshooting skills, ability to extrapolate from incomplete information.

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 what makes Akamai a great place to work. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!

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!

Compensation. Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $83,800 - $174,200/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and location. 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 including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries
• Software Development