Are you passionate about cutting edge technology? Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do. Make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Partner with the best The Senior Engineer creates solutions to improve automation and efficiency for systems and teams. Responsibilities include optimizing workflows, infrastructure, and applications. Expertise in Linux administration, configuration management, and performance tuning is essential. Collaborate on deployment, monitoring, and resolving incidents. Focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency through automation and resource optimization. Promote continuous improvement and operational excellence across all systems. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be: Providing support and mentorship for other engineers within the department Developing and maintaining automated tools and scripts to enhance system reliability, deployment processes, and incident response efficiency. Improving our system monitoring to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability of virtualization platform Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues Writing automation and tooling to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and accelerate incident response Contributing to capacity planning, autoscaling configuration, and workload scheduling for AI compute infrastructure Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or SRE role, working with large scale distributed systems Demonstrate expertise in Kubernetes and large-scale containerization systems. Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack/Ansible Define SLOs and work with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing to enhance system monitoring. Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale Demonstrate accountability for reliability, develop automation and monitoring, and collaborate effectively with an engineering team unfamiliar with SRE practices. About us At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!