Akamai Technologies

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $106,600 - $221,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GrafanaJavaLinuxPerlPythonUnix

About the role

  • Monitoring, investigating, and analyzing performance and availability by (co)designing, managing, and tracking product-related SLIs/SLOs
  • Solving problems and avoid recurrence by developing tools / prototypes to proactively monitor service performance and availability
  • 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
  • Engaging with support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems, including incident management and post-mortem reviews
  • Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for customers

Requirements

  • 5 years of relevant experience and a Master's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
  • Experience in one of the scripting or procedural languages (python, perl, shell, C/C++, Java, etc.)
  • Experience working in a UNIX/Linux computing environment
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging platforms such as Grafana
  • In-depth understanding of computer networking concepts, Unix/Linux internals, distribution systems, and system design
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills, be able to articulate technical information in an easy to understand manner
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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data analysisnetwork diagnosticsdebugging toolsscripting languagesprocedural languagesUNIXLinuxsystem designmonitoringalerting
Soft skills
communicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationadvocacy
Certifications
Master's degree in Computer Science