Site Reliability Engineer II

Are you passionate about enhancing the reliability and efficiency of systems and services?

Do you thrive on leading and inspiring team to achieve operational excellence and deliver outstanding results?

Join Our Zero Trust Security Team

At SIA Enterprise, protective measures are developed utilizing Akamai's real-time cloud security intelligence to enhance digital safety effectively.

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure Akamai's security products operate efficiently. Maintain system reliability, enhance monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation. Develop advanced tools while leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, and ClickHouse. Collaborate with top cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Linode, to drive continuous improvements and optimize performance.

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

• Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
• Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
• Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Improving monitoring and analysis platforms to ensure rapid error detection and remediation, including developing automated remediation
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Demonstrate a proven ability to design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy for complex software products
• Utilize ArgoCD to implement GitOps-based deployments while overseeing Kubernetes application delivery workflows effectively and efficiently.
• Create and manage CI/CD workflows leveraging GitHub Actions to automate processes, including building, testing, and deploying pipelines effectively.
• Have prior experience in defining and implementing frameworks and tools
• Demonstrate expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Third Party clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Linode.
• Have experience working on Linux-based infrastructure, Bash/Python
• Demonstrate expertise in problem-solving and troubleshooting across network, system, application, and database layers, including network protocols, Linux OS, and SQL/KQL.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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