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 Engineering team
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help manage Compute platform. We are focusing on identity and access management (IAM) solutions.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure smooth operation and up-time of our Compute services and infrastructure. You will be supervising and maintaining our critical infrastructure. Together with development teams, you will be creating software that monitors and improves the reliability of our systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Providing support and mentorship for other SRE engineers within the team
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Partnering with multiple teams to ensure the availability, reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming
• Collaborating with our engineering, operations and support teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Developing and improving automation to support daily activities and reduce toil
• Working with Engineering and QE teams to deliver robust solutions, code improvements and stability enhancements.

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have good analytical and troubleshooting skills, ability to extrapolate from incomplete information
• Be experienced in one of the programming languages such as Python and/or Go, and familiar with scripting programming languages
• Hold fluency using automation and configuration management tools such as Salt Stack, Terraform and Ansible, as well as CI/CD solutions such as Jenkins, Cloud Bees or similar
• Have hands-on mastery in Linux administration and container-based platforms like Docker
• Have hands on experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or similar
• Possess an understanding of best practices related to systems reliability, observability and monitoring incl. adherence to SLOs.
• Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale

Work in a way that works for you
Flex Base, 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. Flex Base, 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.

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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
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.
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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!