Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Would you enjoy improving stability and safety of one of thelargest global networks?

Would you enjoy hands-on network operations work on a globalscale to improve our operational efficiency?

Join Our Metadata Team

The Metadata Team is a part of the Akamai's Systems Communications group (SysComm). A cross-functional engineering team that develops the distributed systems and services that underpin Akamai's global network. Our system supports fast and reliable configuration of Akamai's global network. Also, we support the control services for global content management.

Partner with the best

You'll leverage your distributed systems, network diagnostics and analytical skills to characterize performance and reliability of system. You will help create and maintain simulation tools, supporting performance analysis of the team's various metadata systems.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Tuning systems to optimize performance and writing & maintaining alerts to detect anomalies in the systems
• Providing ongoing technical assistance in areas including model database management, configuration management, and simulation runs
• Managing the rollout and activation of new features and platform changes
• Developing monitoring tools and automate processes to help scale our systems better
• Troubleshooting complex application issues, service incidents, performance and availability issues
• Providing expertise developing code that provides predictive results from analytical trending and modeling

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years' experience in Linux/Unix-like operating systems and a Bachelor's degree
• Have experience in programming or scripting in any language (bonus point for Python)
• Demonstrate successful leadership skills, able to collaborate, communicate, prioritize, and solve problems in an ever-changing environment
• Have a significant background in performance analytics and performance optimization
• Have experience in Rest APIs and be able to monitor systems & applications for performance
• Have experience with database queries or big data technologies & experience in writing SQLs.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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Working For You

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

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

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

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Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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