Akamai

Senior Release Engineer

Akamai
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4 days ago
Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable build and deployment pipelines and develop custom agentic and CLI tools to optimize build workflows.
  • Serve as the final release authority by enforcing release schedules, quality gates, and compliance checks with QA and Engineering.
  • Identify, triage, and resolve environment-level issues such as build node outages, test lab provisioning failures, and network or dependency blocks.
  • Integrate AI agents and evaluation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and log analysis.
  • Participate in an agentic DevOps group developing AI agents for production issue monitoring, escalation triage, and management.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of experience in Software Release Engineering, DevOps, or Build/Test Automation roles.
  • Have expertise with continuous integration and delivery tools such as CloudBees, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in Python and Bash; Ruby knowledge is preferred.
  • Have experience with Docker and container registry management.
  • Have working knowledge of Linux systems.
  • Have working knowledge of AI tooling and agentic workflows.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
  • Benefits include healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness support.
  • The compensation package may include annual bonuses or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, subject to eligibility requirements.

Tech Stack

BashDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJenkinsLinuxPythonRuby

Categories

Akamai

About Akamai

10,000+ employees

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.

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