Are you passionate about building reliable and scalable cloud platforms?
Would you enjoy supporting cybersecurity products through advanced data and AI capabilities?
Join our Akamai Guardicore Data and AI Platform Team!
The team develops and manages a cloud-native Data and AI Platform enabling analytics, insights, and AI-driven features for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. It processes extensive security and contextual data, supporting customers in understanding environments, minimizing risks, and preventing threat proliferation.
Partner with the best
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will take technical ownership of the reliability, availability, performance, and operational readiness of the Guardicore Data and AI Platform.
You will be responsible for:
- Operating secure, highly available Kubernetes infrastructure for core microservices, data pipelines, observability, and internal tooling.
- Enhancing platform reliability, observability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected.
- Leading complex production investigations and driving long-term improvements.
- Leverage LLMs and AI-driven automation to auto-remediate incidents and streamline operations.
- Partner across DevOps, Software, Data, AI and Security engineering Teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- 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:
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with a proven track record of mastering and troubleshooting complex system architectures."
- Demonstrate ability to design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Have production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and third-party clouds (GCP, Azure, Linode, AWS) on Linux-based infrastructure.
- Have exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across network, system, applications, and database layers.
- Have experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Have scripting and programming proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash.
- Leverage AI tools in daily operational tasks and actively propose initiatives to improve platform automation.
- Demonstrate technical leadership and ownership in driving cross-team initiatives, defining tools, and building foundational frameworks.
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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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.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- Design and implement monitoring and observability strategies using Prometheus and Grafana
- Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
- Production experience with third-party clouds (GCP, Azure, Linode, AWS) on Linux infrastructure
- Strong troubleshooting across network, system, application, and database layers
- Experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
- Scripting and programming proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash
- Experience leveraging LLMs/AI for automation, incident remediation, and operational tasks
- Technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and ownership of reliability initiatives
- Participation in on-call rotations and incident response
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.
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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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