3 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$95k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute phased rollouts of VPC and Cloud Firewall dataplane binaries and feature flags.
- Operate and troubleshoot private networking, routing, overlays, encapsulation, and stateful firewall enforcement on Linux hosts.
- Support the IPSec Gateway and Multi-Cloud Networking services, including tunnel health, IKE/IPsec negotiation, and cross-cloud connectivity.
- Automate rollout steps, health checks, and recurring operational tasks using Python, Shell, and SaltStack.
- Build and maintain Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and SLO improvements.
- Participate in on-call and incident triage, drive mitigation to reduce MTTR, and contribute to post-mortems.
- Contribute to Technical Readiness Reviews and maintain standard operating procedures and team knowledge bases.
Requirements
- At least two years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Understanding of TCP/IP, subnetting, Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing, NAT, DNS, and stateful firewalling.
- Hands-on Linux networking experience with network namespaces, bridges, virtual interfaces, iptables, nftables, and conntrack.
- Packet-level troubleshooting experience with tcpdump, Wireshark, tshark, ip, ss, traceroute, and mtr.
- Experience writing automation in Python or Shell and using SaltStack or Ansible for configuration management.
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Understanding of phased rollouts, canaries, feature flags, validation, and rollback.
- Ability to work with moderate supervision, communicate clearly during incidents, and prioritize operational work.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401(k) 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 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.