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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $146,400.0 - $263,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Configuration Management, Computer Engineering, Database Queries, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Metadata, Network Diagnostics, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Akamai, SQL Databases, Scripting, Computer Network Operations, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/7DB18415178D47EC927CA80BC1BC3E89/job/

## About the Role

* Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
 * Have extensive experience with Linux/Unix operating systems and scripting, ideally with Python
 * Have a significant background in performance analytics and performance optimization
 * Be able to monitor systems and applications for performance
 * Have experience with database queries or big data technologies (Postgres/SQL)
 * Have good attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skill

## Description

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 Our Metadata Team!

The Metadata Team is a part of the Akamai's Platform Communications group. A cross-functional engineering team that develops the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. Our system supports fast and reliable configuration of Akamai's global network. Also, we support the control services for global content management.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll leverage your big data, distributed systems, network diagnostics and analytical skills to characterize performance, reliability and capacity of the system. You'll help create and maintain the test analysis & simulation tools, supporting performance analysis of the team's various metadata systems.

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

 * Tuning systems to optimize performance and to operate more reliably
 * Providing ongoing technical assistance in areas including model database management, configuration management, and simulation runs
 * 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


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