Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai’s Compute products and services. The Senior Engineer creates solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, infrastructure, and applications. Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential. Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents. Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization. Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems. Responsibilities Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency. Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure Qualifications Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems. Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring. Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices. Work Conditions FlexBase, Akamai’s Global Flexible Working Program, is based on principles that help create the best workplace in the world. We can discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. Benefits Your health Your finances Your family Your time at work Your time pursuing other endeavors #J-18808-Ljbffr