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Site Reliability Engineer II
Akamai Technologies
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Salary/compensation: Not stated in the description.
- Level Required: 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Education requirement: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Key benefit: FlexBase program allowing flexible work arrangements (home, office, or hybrid).
- Notable requirement: Experience with Oracle SQL for data integrity validation and root cause analysis.
- Notable requirement: Expertise in Unix/Linux operating environments and scripting languages (Python, Bash, or JavaScript).
Role overview
Akamai is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to join its critical Platform & Reliability Engineering Team, which is responsible for defining, measuring, and optimizing the key performance indicators of delivery customers. In this role, you will partner with product teams early in development to shape product futures by ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance across large-scale distributed content delivery systems.
Responsibilities
- Shaping product futures by ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Collaborating with product teams early in the development process.
- Defining key performance indicators.
- Improving monitoring and alerting processes.
- Enhancing operational responses.
- Resolving complex performance challenges.
- Working on Internet technologies to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and establish measurable Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Providing technical expertise and feedback to ensure system designs and implementations align with reliability and performance requirements effectively.
- Monitoring platform availability and performance, analyzing data to resolve complex issues, and implementing solutions to prevent future occurrences.
- Creating and implementing automation solutions to enhance operational efficiency while minimizing repetitive tasks.
- Ensing participation in architecture and design reviews to verify systems achieve exceptional scalability, performance, and resilience standards.
- Staying updated on the newest developments in cloud computing, DevOps, and SRE practices to ensure expertise and effectiveness.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Validate data integrity, analyze anomalies, and generate reports using Oracle SQL for comprehensive root cause identification.
- Demonstrate expertise in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or JavaScript without compromising quality or functionality.
- Work with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, and Datadog for metrics, alerts, dashboards, and troubleshooting.
- Demonstrate expertise in Unix/Linux operating environments.
- Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning and achieving operational excellence through automation and efficiency enhancements.
- Adopt a customer-focused approach with a deep sense of responsibility and accountability, showcasing excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication abilities.
Benefits
- Benefits supporting your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase program — supports employees working at home, in an office, or a combination of both, trusting employees to work in ways that suit them best.
Additional details
- The Platform & Reliability Engineering team is responsible for defining, measuring, & optimizing the key performance indicators of delivery customers.
- Your expertise in software engineering and systems administration will be instrumental in building robust and resilient infrastructure.
- Akamai's mission: We make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day — whether streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching favorite series, or managing savings.
- Akamai provides the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure.
- Akamai's focus areas: Cloud and Edge (running apps closer to users for instant performance), Security (neutralizing threats before they reach your data), Content Delivery (scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch), AI (enabling customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform).
- Akamai powers and protects the internet, ensuring it just works when millions of people hit play or pay.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.