Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies?
Be part of our SRE team, improving reliability and scalability!
Our mission is to support, maintain, and scale our Managed Kubernetes products.
Partner with the best
You will work to ensure uninterrupted operations from the beginning to the end of a software's life cycle for Linode Kubernetes engine ( LKE ) & other Akamai Compute Cloud native offerings.
You will be responsible for:
- Ensuring end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of Managed Kubernetes offerings while developing, maintaining, automating, troubleshooting, and proactively resolving production incidents.
- Automating processes, ensuring stability, monitoring releases, deploying successfully, collaborating across teams, benchmarking performance, and shaping product and service evolution.
- Performing proactive measures such as capacity planning, performance tuning and implementing infrastructure as code.
- Collaborating with development teams to design and deploy new features and services that align with organizational reliability and performance goals.
- Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability.
- Maximizing reliability, security, and performance by prioritizing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and adopting a proactive engineering approach.
- Helping to identify areas for new technology investments.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have extensive industrial experience and bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field
- Obtain certifications like Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) to enhance professional credibility.
- Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP)
- Demonstrate experience with coding in one or more of the following languages (python, golang, SQL)
- Have experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, terraform, and Salt.
- Have experience troubleshooting Unix & Linux issues.
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
- Over 5 years of industrial experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP)
- Experience with coding in Python, Golang, or SQL
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Salt
- Experience with Managed Kubernetes control plane components
- Experience troubleshooting Unix & Linux issues
- Experience with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
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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