[Hiring] Senior Linux SRE @Akamai

Role Description

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

As a Senior Linux Site Reliability Engineer, you will specialize in creating solutions that help improve automation and efficiencies across the Database team. You will be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing database and infrastructure. This will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance tuning, and hardware engineering.

As a Senior Linux SRE, you will be responsible for:

• Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience gathering and analyzing observability metrics (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana)
• Experience defining alert postures to cover informational through critical alerts
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking
• Expert level experience in a DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role, with both bare metal and virtualized environments
• Experience with MySQL, SaltStack for configuration management, architecting software and infrastructure at scale
• Experience with automation
• Ability to work in alignment with (or contribute to) strategic business initiatives and coordinate and guide the work of other engineers
• Excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
• Strong opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table

Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
• FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
• Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience.
• We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.