Are you passionate about enhancing the reliability and efficiency of systems and services?
Do you thrive on leading and inspiring team to achieve operational excellence and deliver outstanding results?
Join Our Zero Trust Security Team
At SIA Enterprise, protective measures are developed utilizing Akamai's real-time cloud security intelligence to enhance digital safety effectively.
Partner with the best
As a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure Akamai's security products operate efficiently. Maintain system reliability, enhance monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation. Develop advanced tools while leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, and ClickHouse. Collaborate with top cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Linode, to drive continuous improvements and optimize performance.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Deploying and maintaining our observability platform and internal tooling
- Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our products and services
- Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected
- Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Improving monitoring and analysis platforms to ensure rapid error detection and remediation, including developing automated remediation
- 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:
- Have 2+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Demonstrate a proven ability to design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy for complex software products
- Utilize ArgoCD to implement GitOps-based deployments while overseeing Kubernetes application delivery workflows effectively and efficiently.
- Create and manage CI/CD workflows leveraging GitHub Actions to automate processes, including building, testing, and deploying pipelines effectively.
- Have prior experience in defining and implementing frameworks and tools
- Demonstrate expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Third Party clouds such as AWS, Azure, or Linode.
- Have experience working on Linux-based infrastructure, Bash/Python
- Demonstrate expertise in problem-solving and troubleshooting across network, system, application, and database layers, including network protocols, Linux OS, and SQL/KQL.
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
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and observability strategies for complex software products
- Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments
- Experience creating and managing CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
- Experience defining and implementing frameworks and tools
- Expertise with Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with third-party cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Linode
- Experience with Linux-based infrastructure and Bash or Python
- Problem-solving and troubleshooting experience across network, system, application, and database layers
- Knowledge of network protocols, Linux operating systems, and SQL or KQL
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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