Would you enjoy improving stability and safety of one of the largest global networks?
Would you enjoy hands-on network operations work on a global scale to improve our operational efficiency?
Join the Platform Cloud Services Team!
The Platform Cloud Services SRE Team (PCS) is a part of the Akamai's Performance and Reliability Engineering group, a cross-functional engineering team that maintains reliability and performance of the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. The PCS Team provides services that support hundreds of internal distributed web applications and databases for Akamai empowering our engineers to focus on the product.
Partner with the best
As part of this excellent team, you will leverage your big data, distributed systems, network diagnostics and analytical skills to characterize performance, reliability and capacity of the system. In this position, you will help create and maintain the test analysis & simulation tools, supporting performance analysis of the team's various metadata systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:
- Tuning systems to optimize performance and to operate more reliably
- Providing ongoing technical assistance in areas including distributed web app and noSQL design
- Managing the rollout and activation of new features and platform changes
- Developing monitoring tools and automate processes to help scale our systems better
- Troubleshooting complex application issues, service incidents, performance and availability issues
- Providing expertise developing code that provides predictive results from analytical trending and modeling
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Be experienced in working and troubleshooting across the stack with Linux/Unix-like operating systems
- Have knowledge and experience with database or big data technologies (Postgres/Apache Cassandra)
- Be experienced with programming or scripting such as Python
- Have experience with container technology and microservices
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please discuss your requirements with the recruiter when you apply.
Working with us
At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled teams build progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!