Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Do you enjoy solving security challenges?
Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Team
Akamai is a leading developer of a distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. At SIA Enterprise, we develop protective measures that harness Akamai's real-time cloud security intelligence.
Partner with the best
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the optimal reliability and availability of Akamai's critical security products. This includes continuously improving monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation processes. You'll design and develop tools to enhance these capabilities while collaborating with cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, and third-party clouds.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
- Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
- Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Improving monitoring and analysis platforms to ensure rapid error detection and remediation, including developing automated remediation
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Demonstrate a proven ability to design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy for complex software products
- Possess hands-on experience with ArgoCD for GitOps-based application deployments and managing Kubernetes application delivery workflows
- Have experience creating and managing CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions for automation, build, test, and deployment pipelines
- Have prior experience in defining and implementing frameworks and tools
- Have experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Third Party clouds (AWS, Azure, Linode, etc.)
- Have experience working on Linux-based infrastructure, Bash/Python
- Possess problem-solving and troubleshooting skills across network, system, application, and database layers, with expertise in network protocols, Linux OS, and SQL/KQL
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.
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from CRC16,932,850 - CRC30,479,150/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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.