Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akamai Technologies develops and manages applications and infrastructure supporting cloud products and services. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will create automation and tooling, improve monitoring and alerting, support capacity planning and autoscaling, investigate platform stability and performance, and participate in on-call incident response and engineer mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency
- Improving system monitoring, analysis and alerting to speed error detection and remediation
- Building automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response
- Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for compute infrastructure
- Investigating and analyzing platform components to identify opportunities to enhance stability and performance
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues and providing support and mentorship for other engineers
Skills
- Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
- Have extensive experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and scripting, ideally with Bash, Python and Perl
- Have good attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skill
- Possess ability to work with the minutia of individual system classes as well as the larger strategic viewpoint of the interrelated pieces of the environment
- Be able to work with and coordinate external teams in world-wide geos to maintain environment operational stability
- Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki
Benefits
- Annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare benefits; eligibility requirements apply
- 401K savings plan; eligibility requirements apply
- Company holidays; eligibility requirements apply
- Vacation in the form of PTO; eligibility requirements apply
- Sick time; eligibility requirements apply
- Parental leave; eligibility requirements apply
- Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; eligibility requirements apply
- FlexBase work arrangements: at home, in an office, or a combination of both
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