Job Description

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale systems problems?

Join our Site Reliability Engineering team

The Senior Site Performance and Reliability Engineer ensures optimal performance and uptime of Akamai's portal services and infrastructure. Responsibilities include analyzing system performance end-to-end, focusing on back-end and infrastructure elements. Identified bottlenecks and failure points are addressed through proposed solutions. Work involves a microservices-based platform with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Apache Cassandra, across on-prem and cloud infrastructures.

Partner with the best

Our Edge Experience Team is a group of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications, APIs and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third-party technologies.


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


Providing ongoing operational support for complex web applications operating on the portal platform and available for on-call rotation Solving complex problems in a timely and accurate manner through proactive troubleshooting, automation and systems programming. Analyzing and resolving performance issues and updating stakeholders via the JIRA service desk ticketing application Developing proactive monitoring, alerting, and log analysis systems in production and lab environments

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:


5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent Demonstrate expertise in public cloud platforms and hybrid on-premises architectures with established record of operational excellence. Demonstrate proficiency in infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform, Ansible, or comparable automation tools as a critical requirement. Excel in creating, overseeing, and refining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub, or comparable DevOps platforms effectively and efficiently. Manage Linux systems by performing installation, configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance tasks, and monitoring to ensure optimal performance and functionality. Utilize orchestration tools to automate deployment, scaling, and configuration management effectively across multiple environments with practical expertise. Demonstrate expertise in scripting with Python, Perl, or Bash and log analysis using Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana.

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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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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.

Join us

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!