9 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.
- 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 and verify requirements for safe deployment and rollback strategies.
- 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, with working knowledge of Perl and Go.
- 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, Bash, and scripting.
- Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SaltStack.
- Understanding of modern software development lifecycle processes and service level objective monitoring and alerting.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
- Healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation/PTO, sick time, family-friendly benefits, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- 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.