21 hours ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Investigate and troubleshoot deployment-related issues across 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 them during deployment.
- Write and maintain scripts to automate platform service deployments.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Python and Pytest, modern testing methodologies, Perl, and Golang.
- Experience debugging failures across x86 and ARM environments, including determining whether failures are architecture-specific.
- Knowledge of Debian packaging and QEMU TCG and KVM acceleration.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, including performance tuning, plus Bash and scripting experience.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
- Understanding of software development life cycle processes and service-level objective monitoring and alerting.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program, allowing work from home, an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, paid time off, sick time, family-friendly benefits, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support.
- 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.