[Remote] Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer- Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akamai Technologies is a leader in cloud security solutions, serving billions of users globally. The Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer will ensure optimal performance and uptime of critical security products by analyzing system performance and developing monitoring tools.


Responsibilities

  • Deploying and maintaining the platform and tools used internally
  • Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows
  • 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
  • Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability
  • Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Skills

  • Have 4 years of experience and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Have professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
  • Have experience with any cloud platform (we use Azure heavily) & automation tool such as Jenkins, Terraform
  • Have experience developing software using Python, Golang, and familiarity with scripting programming languages
  • Have exposure to Container technologies like Dockers and Kubernetes
  • Demonstrate communication and presentation skills
  • Have a Secret Security Clearance

Benefits

  • Healthcare
  • 401K savings plan
  • Company holidays
  • Vacation (in the form of PTO)
  • Sick time
  • Family friendly benefits including parental leave
  • Employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness

Company Overview

  • Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.akamai.com.

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