Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?

Partner with the best

You will apply statistical data analysis and an understanding of networking protocols to diagnose and solve some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges. You will work with cross-functional teams to understand and measure the performance and reliability of our platform and products, and influence their evolution.Note: this is not a QA, DevOps or Operations role.

You'll collaborate with operations and development teams. You'll build and manage our scalable storage platforms, including Block Storage, Object Storage, and APIs. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. Working with open-source technologies, including Ceph and Kubernetes, ensuring Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Leading SRE teams by providing technical mentorship, feedback and guidelines, and by organising project-specific work.

• Driving partnership with Engineering, Operations and Product teams to help guide adoption of new features and processes.

• Applying analytical skills and statistical insights to identify performance bottlenecks and reliability challenges, and propose solutions.

• Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability.

• Defining, implementing, mining data feeds drawn from 3rd party and internal sources to produce insights that influence our products and platform

• Influencing company decision-making at the highest levels to identify areas for new technology investments.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.

• Have an analytical background with experience in statistical data analysis.

• Demonstrate experience with coding and tool building in at least one of the following languages (python, perl, SQL, Java, C, R).

• Make a habit of delving into the details of your own, and your team's work.

• Have a proven ability to provide insightful and well-received technical feedback.

• Have excellent communication and organisational skills and be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner.

• Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP).

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Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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