3 days ago
Remote, United States or Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Deploy storage systems to new locations and provision supporting infrastructure.
- Automate repetitive storage-platform tasks using Bash and Python.
- Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure projects that improve storage scalability.
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex storage issues across compute and networking stacks.
- Improve storage monitoring, observability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
Requirements
- Have two years of relevant professional experience and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Have professional experience in Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering, ideally with Ceph or storage systems.
- Have experience with NGINX, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS certificate management, load balancing, and caching.
- Have experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or SaltStack.
- Be able to write scripts in Python and Bash.
- Have experience troubleshooting Linux systems with tools including tcpdump, iostat, strace, iftop, netstat, and iotop.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Benefits
- Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, an employee assistance program, and mental and financial wellness support.
- Akamai offers FlexBase work arrangements that may be remote, office-based, or hybrid depending on job needs.
- The compensation package may include annual bonus or incentive opportunities, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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.