Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies

Site Reliability Engineer focused on configuration management, IAC, and CI/CD for Akamai Cloud. Designing and operating the infrastructure deployment while improving reliability and performance.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $75,700 - $136,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleChefLinuxPuppetSaltStackTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designing, developing, testing, and operating critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.
Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues
Driving reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.
Developing technical expertise in IAC systems and serving as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices
Collaborating with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.
Participating in an on-call rotation and providing leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post-incident improvement efforts.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
Experience in a Site Reliability or Software Engineering role
Experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, workspace design, policy enforcement, and enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code implementations
Experience managing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies
Experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale in a Linux environment.
Great communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeTerraformSaltStackAnsibleChefPuppetLinuxmonitoringloggingalerting

Soft Skills

communicationinterpersonal skillsleadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical expertisereliability improvementsautomationincident response

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer Science