[Hiring] System Operations Engineer @Akamai

Role Description

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems? Are you a self-starting professional who thrives in a dynamic environment? Join our Site Reliability team.

Our Team builds and delivers highly secure network security frameworks to protect our customers. We collaborate to create next-generation initiatives supporting automation, deployment, and monitoring of 3rd party cloud infrastructure.

Help us shape the future of the Internet. In this role you will provide advanced cloud operations for the top-of-the-line security products on the market, including our unique Zero Trust Security platform. You will be focusing on a cutting-edge suite of services to ensure application and network performance, reliability and security for users connecting through the Akamai Zero Trust platform.

As a System Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Provide continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the various application servers, systems.
• Recommend/Document System Operations Procedures.
• Analyzing logs and events from the cloud service to ensure smooth service operation.
• Participating in on-call rotation (24x7 team) with other members of the System Engineering team.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering or relevant field.
• 2+ years of experience in Production support.
• Good to have experience in Cloud platform, Kubernetes.
• Good to have experience/knowledge on Ansible/Terraform/Chef.
• Be experienced with monitoring and analytics tools such as Prometheus, Sensu.
• Proficiency in Systems Administration in Linux preferably Ubuntu.
• Be experienced with any scripting knowledge preferably bash/Python.
• Good Understanding of Network protocols such as DNS/HTTP/TCP/IP.
• Good understanding of AI/ML, specifically Agentic AI, MCP etc.

Benefits

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