Job Description

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team is responsible for monitoring and measuring the reliability of our suite of computing products and platforms. In collaboration with Engineering Product teams, we focus on improving the performance and reliability of products we support.

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you enhance Akamai's Compute products' performance, availability, and reliability. You define KPIs, improve monitoring and alerting, and investigate complex issues.


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


Providing ongoing operational support for complex distributed applications. Solving complex problems promptly and avoiding recurrence through proactive troubleshooting, and automation systems programming. Providing guidance to engineers and developers to increase confidence that their services are performing as expected Monitoring, investigating, and analyzing performance and availability by (co)designing, managing, and tracking product-related SLIs/SLOs Working closely with product engineers to advocate reliable and scalable system design for supportability, resilience and reliability Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and recommend improvements

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:


Have 2 years of experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience Show experience in scripting or procedural languages (Python, Perl, Shell, C/C++, Java, etc.) with automation scripting capabilities Show fluency working in a UNIX/Linux ,system administration and troubleshooting Have mandatory experience with Kubernetes cluster administration, debugging, and troubleshooting distributed systems Be familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform Have proficiency with a configuration management tool such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar Have experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar Show hands-on experience with observability stack including Grafana, Victoria Metrics (or Prometheus), and Loki

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.




Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work


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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!




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