Storage SRE II: Scale & Automate Petabyte Systems

Akamai Career Site; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; CAD 82,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Healthcare benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join our team in Canada. You will design, deploy, and manage scalable storage platforms, collaborate with operations and development teams, and build tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems.

You will work with Ceph and Open Source technologies to ensure reliability and performance. The role emphasizes on-call rotations, cross-team collaboration, and strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant experience in Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience with Ceph or storage systems.
• Experience with NGINX, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, load balancing, and caching.
• Experience with automation tools Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or SaltStack.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Experience troubleshooting Linux systems with tools like tcpdump, iostat, strace, iftop, netstat, and iotop.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Deploy storage systems to new locations and provision infrastructure.
• Automate repetitive tasks with Bash and Python to increase reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support infrastructure projects and scalability.
• Troubleshoot complex storage problems across compute and networking stacks.
• Improve storage monitoring and observability for performance and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations to guide restoration of service-impacting issues.

Skills

Python

Bash

Linux troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

SaltStack

NGINX

TLS certificates

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join our team in Canada. You will design, deploy, and manage scalable storage platforms, collaborate with operations and development teams, and build tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems.

You will work with Ceph and Open Source technologies to ensure reliability and performance. The role emphasizes on-call rotations, cross-team collaboration, and strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.