Akamai Technologies · 1 month ago
Director Site Reliability Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$184K/yr - $381K/yr
10+ years expAkamai is a leading company that powers and protects life online, and they are seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a global team responsible for the reliability and performance of their cloud overlay network. The role involves shaping platform resilience, promoting an automation-first culture, and ensuring effective incident management practices.
Cyber SecurityDigital MediaSaaSSoftwareVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Leading and mentoring a globally-distributed team of Network SREs responsible for operating Akamai's cloud network at scale
Defining, measuring, and evolving SLOs to align service reliability with customer experience, ensuring we understand and meet expectations before issues become incidents
Promoting an automation-first culture rooted in SRE values, scaling efforts to reduce toil and improve change safety and speed
Partnering with Product, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to influence design, align priorities, clarify roles, and drive efficient delivery with a focus on reliability at scale
Leading SRE's role in incident management declaring incidents, acting as executive stakeholder, driving postmortem analysis, and ensuring remediation work is completed to prevent recurrence
Qualification
Required
10+ years in engineering leadership roles within cloud providers, hyperscalers, or fast-growing technology organizations
5+ years of experience operating and scaling complex network infrastructure, including routing protocols, overlay networks, configuration management, and large-scale multi-tenant environments
Have experience leading SWE or SRE teams support infrastructure, operations, and platform reliability
Have experience in designing and implementing incident management practices, including on-call rotations, escalation paths, and postmortem processes
Possess a foundation in systems engineering, with a focus on Linux, open-source infrastructure, and distributed systems
Possess experience with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana & configuration management tools like Salt and Ansible
Have experience with cross-functional collaboration, including influencing product management, software engineering, hardware, and operations teams to align on priorities and deliver on reliability initiatives
Have experience with workflow management practices and tools to support planning, tracking, and team collaboration
Benefits
Healthcare
401K savings plan
Company holidays
Vacation (in the form of PTO)
Sick time
Family friendly benefits including parental leave
Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
Company
Akamai Technologies
Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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$2.63BKey Investors
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2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Gero
CTO
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