Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems?

Join our highly skilled Cloud Native SRE Team!

We design, implement, and manage robust, scalable and highly available systems and applications in a Cloud Native Akamai platform. We do this while maintaining Akamai's Infrastructure Security to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, You will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive best practices in reliability, observability, and automation to ensure top-tier performance and uptime. You'll create tools to automate the deployment, monitoring and management of the platform.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Maintaining high availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services while adhering to SLAs.

• Identifying and mitigate risks to system reliability using automation, monitoring, and innovative solutions.

• Collaborating with development teams to integrate reliability into the development lifecycle, providing tooling and frameworks to empower teams to deploy, manage, and maintain their own services independently.

• Fostering and promote DevOps principles, supporting teams to build scalable, reliable applications reducing reliance on centralized operational roles.

• Troubleshooting and resolve incidents, lead root cause analysis, and implement measures to prevent recurrence.

• Optimizing system performance through metric analysis, capacity planning, and tuning.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have understanding of DevOps methodologies, with a focus on building and maintaining infrastructure to empower development teams to own their services.

• Have hands-on experience with observability tools and frameworks such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other cloud-native monitoring solutions.

• Have familiarity with cloud-managed services and Terraform (e.g., Kubernetes, DBaaS).

• Possess deep knowledge of Linux internals and networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS and load balancing

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, 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. FlexBase, 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.

Join us

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!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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