Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Are you passionate about infrastructure automation and reliable systems?
Join our SRE team
Our team manages and improves the infrastructure platform and tooling used to run Akamai's products and services. We work across a range of technologies to improve infrastructure reliability, simplify operations, and continuously enhance our automation and operational processes.
Partner with the best
A Senior Site Reliability Engineer focuses on infrastructure platforms and automation solutions for system management and operations. Responsibilities include contributing to technical decisions, enhancing existing solutions, and creating automation to improve efficiency, reliability, and security in infrastructure operations.
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions to manage systems consistently at scale.
- Managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, including lifecycle management, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Improving CI/CD pipelines, software delivery workflows, and artifact management processes.
- Maintaining solutions for secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and PKI.
- Automating repetitive operational tasks through scripting, reusable tooling, and standardized workflows.
- Troubleshooting complex issues across Linux systems, infrastructure services, and Kubernetes environments, identifying root causes and implementing lasting solutions.
- Improving the reliability, security, and maintainability of the infrastructure platform in collaboration with other engineering teams.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or a similar technical role.
- Demonstrate expertise in Linux administration and experience overseeing production infrastructure effectively.
- Have hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools.
- Have experience operating Kubernetes clusters and troubleshooting containerized environments.
- Have experience with CI/CD systems and an understanding of software build, delivery, and artifact management workflows.
- Have knowledge of secrets management, certificate management, or PKI solutions.
- Have scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language, with a focus on automation.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and resolve incidents to maintain service-level objectives and agreements.
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
- Significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or a similar technical role
- Expertise in Linux administration and experience overseeing production infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with configuration management and infrastructure automation tools
- Experience operating Kubernetes clusters and troubleshooting containerized environments
- Experience with CI/CD systems and software build, delivery, and artifact management workflows
- Knowledge of secrets management, certificate management, or PKI solutions
- Scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and resolve incidents while maintaining service-level objectives and agreements
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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