[Hiring] Senior Cloud Support Engineer @Akamai

Role Description

Are you passionate about Akamai Compute technologies and services? Does solving some of the Compute Support team's most difficult challenges interest you? Join our Compute Product Support Group!

We address complex customer support challenges and transform them into insights that enhance the entire Compute Support organization. This role involves:

• Collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering and Product teams for in-depth platform investigations or solutions.
• Offering guidance and feedback to the Core Support team to enhance their expertise and problem-solving abilities.

As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Acting as the technical escalation point for mission-critical production customers.
• Investigating complex issues escalated from Core Support through to resolution.
• Collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering and Product teams to determine the best course of action for specific customer issues.
• Working with our Incident team to address emerging issues with our platform and services.
• Developing training, documentation, and knowledge-sharing sessions based on patterns identified during escalated investigations.
• Facilitating mentorship sessions with the existing Customer Support team to help build their technical and troubleshooting skills.

Qualifications

• Have relevant experience in a similar Cloud Support role.
• Demonstrate experience assisting customers both in person and through written communication, showcasing collaboration abilities and prioritizing customer-focused issue resolution.
• Deliver feedback regularly to peers and cross-team members while identifying issues across multiple aspects of Cloud Computing products and infrastructure.
• Demonstrate advanced troubleshooting expertise in networking, DNS, firewalls, methodical Linux administration, Kubernetes, APIs, and object storage.
• Possess a baseline knowledge of managing AI infrastructures and working with AI operating systems and AI storage solutions like VAST.
• Use observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to analyze and troubleshoot customer-impacting issues.

Benefits

• Opportunities to build new skills and explore new roles.
• Access to development programs such as GROW and Mentoring.
• Participation in internal events like the APEX Expo.
• Utilization of tools such as LinkedIn Learning to expand knowledge and experience.

Company Description

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

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