Site Reliability Engineer Senior (Cassandra)

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?

Join our critical SRE team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications. and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute, CDN, and security products and services. We specialize in creating solutions that help improve observability and enforce SLAs across all internal teams. We do all of this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make. life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will perform system analysis and. troubleshooting, assess performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations. Having identified improvements, you'll work with engineering and the SRE teams to implement new features and products.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Testing inefficiencies and fragilities and write software or infrastructure fixes.
• Designing and work with Engineering or the SRE team to build automation or provide self-service tools
• Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize performance and capacity of
• Designing, managing and tracking of Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance
• Investigating proactively and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage
• Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers
• Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and knowledge in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline
• Have experience with Cassandra, an open-source distributed database management system
• Demonstrate experience in developing solutions Python, Bash, or other languages
• Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TCP
• Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in Linux, VM, and Kubernetes production environments
• Show excellent organization and communication skills, articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner
• Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solve problems and have a drive to improve results

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 

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