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Responsibilities
- Identify testing approaches for proposed engineering changes.
- Investigate deployment-related issues, determine root causes, and recommend solutions across environments.
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks.
- Create and maintain test plans and test cases for platform tools including Service Mesh, APIs, and control plane services.
- Collaborate with engineering groups on integration testing and improve testing environments.
- Define and verify requirements for safe deployment and rollback strategies.
- Write and maintain scripts to automate platform service deployment.
Requirements
- Eight years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, system internals, and performance.
- Experience building Kubernetes workflows and testing products built on Kubernetes.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, particularly performance tuning.
- Strong Bash and scripting fundamentals.
- Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals including VRF, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, and DNS.
- Understanding of modern software development lifecycle processes and service-level objective monitoring and alerting.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Healthcare benefits, RRSP, company holidays, vacation/PTO, sick time, and family-friendly benefits.
- Employee assistance program with mental and financial wellness support.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.