Do you have a passion for network engineering technologies?
Are you looking for the freedom to innovate and help shape the next generation of the network?
Join our Network Operations Engineering team!
Our operations team is responsible for maintaining the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale network infrastructure.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Network Operations Engineer, join a skilled 24x7 operations team ensuring reliable, high-performing, and available network infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support CDN and cloud compute platforms, enhancing observability and operational excellence. #CoreIPNetworking
As a Network Operations Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
- Investigating and resolving routing and switching faults within extensive network environments to ensure seamless connectivity and operational efficiency.
- Troubleshooting backbone, transport, and fabric network topology problems effectively to ensure seamless functionality and optimal performance.
- Leading and supporting the resolution of critical technical incidents effectively and efficiently.
- Providing expertise during incident response and conducting operational reviews to ensure effective analysis and resolution.
- Designing, developing, and maintaining alerts, runbooks, dashboards, and monitoring tools to enhance fault detection and operational visibility.
- Developing and maintaining operational tools, automation, and technical documentation to support extensive network infrastructure effectively and efficiently.
- Installing, configuring, maintaining and optimizing routers and switches.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have a High School / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Have 5+ years of hands-on experience operating and supporting large-scale network environments.
- Have excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills.
- Demonstrate expertise in IP networking, routing, and switching; certifications like CCNA, JNCIA, or similar are recommended.
- Have experience operating and troubleshooting service provider networks and Internet routing protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and MPLS.
- Have experience writing, modifying, and troubleshooting SQL queries.
- Have hands-on experience with Linux/Unix systems and associated tools
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.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- High School or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years hands-on experience operating and supporting large-scale network environments
- Expertise in IP networking, routing, and switching
- Experience with service provider networks and Internet routing protocols (BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS)
- Experience writing, modifying, and troubleshooting SQL queries
- Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix systems and associated tools
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills
- Designing, developing, and maintaining alerts, runbooks, dashboards, and monitoring tools
- Developing and maintaining operational tools, automation, and technical documentation
- Installing, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing routers and switches
- Certifications like CCNA, JNCIA
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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