Site Reliability Engineer II

Summary

Akamai Technologies is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II to support the performance, reliability, and security of its applications, networks, and cloud platforms. The role focuses on deploying and operating highly available systems, automating cloud service deployments, monitoring and troubleshooting services, analyzing operational data, and resolving infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Perform site reliability engineering duties in furtherance of ensuring application and network performance, reliability and security for users of our platforms
• Deploy and operate scalable, highly available, and faulttolerant systems
• Analyze and improve the security, stability, speed, and capacity of our network
• Automate new cloud service deployments
• Monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure SLA is met and adequate capacity is available
• Analyze logs and events from the cloud service and providing recommendations to ensure smooth service operation
• Work within large-scale cloud-based infrastructure
• Quickly identify and resolve infrastructure issues

Skills

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Technology, Information Systems, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role
• Must have: Two (2) years of experience in the following: Production support including interpreting system logs and collecting diagnostic data; root cause analysis; reviewing and implementing security vulnerability fixes; CI/CD pipe-lines; Agile; IaC; Ansible; Terraform; Salt; Python; Bash; GitLab; Linux; Jira; and Confluence

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Technology, Information Systems, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus two (2) years of experience in the job offered or closely related engineering role
• Must have: Two (2) years of experience in the following: Production support including interpreting system logs and collecting diagnostic data; root cause analysis; reviewing and implementing security vulnerability fixes; CI/CD pipe-lines; Agile; IaC; Ansible; Terraform; Salt; Python; Bash; GitLab; Linux; Jira; and Confluence

Benefits

• Annual bonus or incentives
• Equity awards
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation (in the form of PTO)
• Sick time
• Family friendly benefits including parental leave
• Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
• Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the United States
• Akamai's FlexBase program supports employees to work at home, in an office, or a combination of both