Director, Site Reliability Engineering
Akamai Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $183,600 - $381,400 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaLinuxPrometheusSaltStack
About the role
- Lead a global team responsible for the reliability and performance of Akamai's cloud overlay network
- Define, measure, and evolve SLOs to align service reliability with customer experience
- Promote an automation-first culture rooted in SRE values
- Partner with Product, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure to influence design and drive efficient delivery
- Lead SRE's role in incident management
Requirements
- 10+ years in engineering leadership roles within cloud providers or fast-growing technology organizations
- 5+ years of experience operating and scaling complex network infrastructure
- Experience leading SWE or SRE teams supporting infrastructure, operations, and platform reliability
- Experience in designing and implementing incident management practices
- Foundation in systems engineering, focusing on Linux, open-source infrastructure, and distributed systems
- Experience with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana & configuration management tools like Salt and Ansible
- Experience with cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Family friendly benefits including parental leave
- Employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cloud infrastructurenetwork infrastructureincident managementsystems engineeringLinuxopen-source infrastructuredistributed systemsobservabilityconfiguration management
Soft skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunication