7 hours ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Define test strategy, performance quality gates, and automated SDLC processes from testing through deployment and validation.
- Investigate and troubleshoot deployment issues across environments, identify root causes, and recommend solutions.
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks.
- Create and maintain test plans and test cases for microservices, including edge-case coverage.
- Collaborate with engineering groups on integration testing and improve testing environments.
- Evaluate and verify safe deployment and rollback requirements.
- Write and maintain scripts to automate platform service deployments.
Requirements
- At least 2 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.
- Knowledge of Perl and Go, with debugging experience.
- Understanding of x86 and ARM architectures.
- Knowledge of Debian packaging, apt, and dependency management.
- Strong Linux fundamentals, especially performance tuning, plus Bash and scripting fundamentals.
- Understanding of virtualization and containerization.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
Benefits
- Flexible work through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including home, office, or hybrid arrangements.
- Healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, PTO, sick time, employee assistance, and mental and financial wellness benefits.
- 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.