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Akamai Technologies · 11 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies is a leading company that powers and protects life online by providing digital experience solutions. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance product reliability, scalability, and performance while collaborating with product teams and automating deployment processes.

Cyber SecurityDigital MediaSaaSSoftwareVideo Streaming
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Responsibilities

Working on Internet technologies to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems
Monitoring system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to ensure high availability and reliability of services
Ensuring platform availability and performance, analyzing data to debug issues, and implementing solutions to prevent future occurrences
Enhancing CI/CD workflows and secure deployment methods for platform services
Engaging in on-call rotations, incident responses, conducting root cause analyses (RCA), and performing postmortems effectively and collaboratively
Automating deployment processes and system configurations to improve consistency and reduce manual intervention
Collaborating with development teams to optimize application performance and improve system architecture

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringContainerization KubernetesContainerization DockerScripting PythonScripting BashScripting JavaScriptMonitoring Tools PrometheusMonitoring Tools GrafanaConfiguration Management AnsibleConfiguration Management ChefIncident ResponseCollaborationProblem Solving

Required

4+ years of relevant experience as an SRE
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Practical expertise with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and related compute platforms
Demonstrate expertise with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, and others for effective technical implementations
Work with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, Datadog) for metrics, alerts, dashboards, and resolving technical issues
Fluency working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
Proficiency with a configuration management tool such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar

Benefits

Your health
Your finances
Your family
Your time at work
Your time pursuing other endeavors

Company

Akamai Technologies

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Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.

H1B Sponsorship

Akamai Technologies has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (219)
2024 (204)
2023 (227)
2022 (236)
2021 (247)
2020 (279)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.63B
Key Investors
IVP
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2023-08-15Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2001-08-01Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

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Tom Leighton
Chief Executive Officer
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Charlie Gero
CTO
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