Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Compute Platform Services Team)
Akamai Technologies
IndiaremotePosted 9 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 7+ years of relevant experience required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required
- Expert-level experience in Systems engineering, DevOps, or Software engineering with large-scale distributed systems
- Proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform
- Benefits include health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work
- FlexBase program allows flexible work locations
Role overview
Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team. The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services to enhance global daily experiences. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.
- Responsibilities include advancing automation, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting customer-facing applications and infrastructure.
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Linux), this role focuses on developing solutions to enhance automation and efficiency for internal teams.
Requirements
- Success requires innovative thinking and expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance optimization, and hardware engineering.
- Have 7+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
- Possess expert level experience in a Systems engineering or DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
- Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Python or Golang and hands-on experience with SaltStack, Ansible, and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
- Demonstrate expertise with observability or monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, and Splunk.
- Gain experience with any cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or an equivalent alternative.
Benefits
- Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
- FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
- Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
- We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Additional details
- Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?
- Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization?
- Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team.
- The team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure supporting Akamai's Compute products and services to enhance global daily experiences.
- Partner with the best
- Do what you love
- To be successful in this role you will:
- 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.
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