Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?
Join our Origin Service SRE Team!
Our team is responsible for monitoring and measuring the reliability of our suite of origin service products and platform. In collaboration with Engineering and product teams, we focus on improving the performance and reliability of the products we support.
Partner with the best
As a Senior SRE, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand and improve the performance, availability and reliability of Akamai's origin service products. You'll define key performance indicators (KPIs), advance the state of monitoring, alerting and operational responses, and investigate complex performance issues.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Monitoring proactively, investigating, and analyzing performance and availability by (co)designing, managing, and tracking product-related SLIs/SLOs
Solving problems and avoid recurrence by developing tools / prototypes to proactively monitor service performance and availability
Working closely with product engineers to advocate reliable and scalable system design for supportability, resilience and reliability
Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and recommend improvements
Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Show experience in one of the scripting or procedural languages (python, perl, shell, C/C , Java, etc.)
Show knowledge of Oracle SQL for troubleshooting data integrity, reporting and data analysis
Show fluency working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
Have excellent communication and organizational skills, be able to articulate technical information in an easy to understand
Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative improve results while keeping multiple projects on target
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
Learn (https://www.akamai.com/careers) what makes Akamai a great place to work
Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
Your health
Your finances
Your family
Your time at work
Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
#LI-Remote