Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Do you have a passion for network interconnection?

Are you looking to work with an international team to solve problems on a global scale?

Join Our Metadata Team

The Metadata Team is a part of the Akamai's Platform Communications group. A cross-functional engineering team that develops the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. Our system supports fast and reliable configuration of Akamai's global network. Also, we support the control services for global content management.

Partner with the best

This role involves applying expertise in compensation within a dynamic, high-tech setting, emphasizing data management and reporting for market insights.

In this role you will be:

• Tuning systems to optimize performance and writing & maintaining alerts to detect anomalies in the systems.
• Designing and implementing scalable systems to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance across production environments.
• Managing the rollout and activation of new features and platform changes.
• Developing monitoring tools and automating processes to help scale our systems better.
• Troubleshooting complex application issues, service incidents, performance, and availability issues.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years' experience in Linux/Unix-like operating systems administration and a Bachelor's degree.
• Have a significant background in building and administering Kubernetes clusters.
• Have experience in programming or scripting in any language (bonus point for Python).
• Demonstrate successful leadership skills, able to collaborate, communicate, prioritize, and solve problems in an ever-changing environment.
• Have a significant background in performance analytics and performance optimization.
• Have experience in Rest APIs and be able to monitor systems & applications for performance.
• Have experience with database queries or big data technologies & experience in writing and analyzing complex SQL queries.
• Have experience in configuring and managing PostgreSQL.

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.