Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies
Topeka, United States of America
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Topeka, United States of America

Tech stack

Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Computer Engineering
Continuous Integration
Distributed Systems
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Akamai
Software Deployment
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Software Modules
Saltstack
Information Technology
Puppet
Terraform

Job description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will focus on configuration management, IAC, and CI/CD. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure deployment for the Akamai Cloud.

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

  • Designing, developing, testing, and operating critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.

  • Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues

  • Driving reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.

  • Developing technical expertise in IAC systems and serving as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices

  • Collaborating with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.

  • Participating in an on-call rotation and providing leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post-incident improvement efforts.

Requirements

  • Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

  • Demonstrate experience in a Site Reliability or Software Engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.

  • Have experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, workspace design, policy enforcement, and enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code implementations

  • Have experience managing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies

  • Have experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale i

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