2 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate and troubleshoot deployment-related issues across various environments, identify root causes, and recommend solutions.
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks for code changes.
- Create and maintain test plans and test cases for microservices, including relevant scenarios and edge cases.
- Collaborate with engineering groups on integration testing and improve testing environments.
- Investigate requirements for safe deployment and rollback strategies and verify those requirements during deployment.
- Write and maintain scripts to automate platform service deployments.
Requirements
- Eight years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Python and Pytest and a good understanding of modern testing methodologies.
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure with an understanding of system internals and performance.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
- Good Linux fundamentals, particularly performance tuning, plus Bash and scripting fundamentals.
- Understanding of modern software development lifecycle processes and service-level objective monitoring and alerting.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Benefits include healthcare, a 401(k) savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, subject to eligibility.
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.