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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $121,400.0 - $218,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Automation of Tests, Bash Shell, Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Saltstack, Gitlab-ci, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F19A1D2DD6494786B4A2F4F058F8401D/job/

## About the Role

* Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
 * Possess advanced experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
 * Have extensive development skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
 * Have experience integrating security, compliance, and quality controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, artifact management, and deployment strategies
 * Utilize tools such as SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage infrastructure as code effectively and efficiently.
 * Demonstrate advanced experience in a site reliability or software engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.

## Description

As a Senior 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 deep 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.


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