6 hours ago
Base Salary
$169k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and support solutions that improve efficient and streamlined infrastructure processes.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor while driving code quality standards and architectural decisions.
- Collaborate on deployment standards and processes and maintain related documentation.
- Build, test, and design automation tools, including Bash scripts, Python programs, and Slack bots.
- Define service-level objectives for network infrastructure to support high availability and performance.
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems with support, operations, and engineering teams, including participation in on-call rotations.
Requirements
- At least 12 years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps roles involving large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing, and firewall concepts.
- Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open-source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP.
- Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts with Python, Bash, Go, or Rust.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD.
Benefits
- Flexible work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both through Akamai’s FlexBase program.
- Healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
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.