Site Reliability Engineer – II

Akamai Technologies

Site Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability and availability of Akamai’s critical security products. Collaborating with technology like Kubernetes and Kafka to improve monitoring and tools.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇷 Costa RicaJuniorMid-Level💰 CRC 16,932,850 - CRC 30,479,150 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSaltStackSQLTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams.
Optimize workflows, infrastructure, and applications.
Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents.
Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization.
Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems.
Provide support and mentorship for other engineers within the department.
Develop and maintain automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency.
Improve system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform.
Participate in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
Write automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response.
Contribute to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
Possess experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems.
Demonstrate experience in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems.
Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible.
Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring.
Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Linux AdministrationUnix AdministrationAutomation DevelopmentMonitoring ToolsConfiguration ManagementIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningAutoscaling ConfigurationWorkload SchedulingSLO Definition

Soft Skills

CollaborationMentorshipAccountability