[Hiring] Manager Engineering @Akamai

Role Description

The Global Services Engineering Team develops and supports applications that empower Global Services teams to focus on what they do best and deliver value to our customers.

• Lead, mentor, and build a team of Site Reliability Engineers, fostering a culture of reliability, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals
• Establish and manage key performance & reliability metrics
• Oversee monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices to ensure rapid detection and resolution of issues
• Lead major incident response efforts, post-incident reviews, and drive corrective and preventive actions
• Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to influence system design and reliability best practices
• Identify operational risks and scalability challenges, and proactively drive long-term solutions
• Promote automation and build operational efficiency to reduce manual interventions and improve system stability

Qualifications

• At least 10+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps with prior experience in leading/managing teams
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and reliability engineering principles
• Strong understanding of security and compliance considerations in production environments
• Strong knowledge of orchestration and containerization technologies such as Docker & Kubernetes
• Good working knowledge of Java / Python / GoLang and follows common development practices and methodologies
• Good working knowledge of databases especially PostGres and MySQL
• Good knowledge of front-end web development using ReactJS/Angular, HTML + CSS
• Good hands-on experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability applications such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Knowledge of Spark, Hadoop and ElasticSearch
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills

Benefits

• FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, offers 95% of employees the choice to work from home, the office, or both
• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things
• Benefit options designed to meet individual needs for today and in the future