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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Feb 2026

💰 $221,400/yr($106,600/yr – $221,400/yr)

About the role

Are you excited to work on innovative enterprise security products?

Are you passionate about developing top of the line applications using cutting-edge technologies?

Join our Zero Trust Security team!

Our team develops and maintains cutting-edge security solutions for Akamai's enterprise customers. We collaborate with Dev, QA, DevOps, product, support, and sales engineering to deliver secure products. Our goal is to help businesses to deliver secure products, enhance security features, and protect our customers.

Partner with the best

Join our esteemed team of experts focused on evolving product architecture. Enable secure organizations to adopt Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), focusing on the FedRAMP program. Maintain and enhance ZTNA, collaborating with development and operational teams. Responding to incidents, optimizing performance, and automating operations for streamlined efficiency.

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

Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on the ZTNA Cloud Platform.
Developing and implementing procedures for automating SRE and operations tasks, streamlining day-to-day work.
Analyzing logs and events to identify potential issues and optimize system performance.
Applying cloud operational best practices and ensuring their appropriate use.
Participating in weekend maintenance, up to once a month, to support system maintenance and upgrades.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

5+ years of experience as a cloud SRE.
Have expertise in AWS services: EC2, Route53, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, ACM, Managed Opensearch.
Be proficient in managing Kubernetes and have experience with deployment/configuration tools like Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
Have experience working with Linux, with Ubuntu, and large-scale cloud infrastructures.
Have experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch cluster setup and maintenance.
Have knowledge of SSL/TLS certificates, mutual TLS (mTLS), public key infrastructure (PKI).
Show Proficiency in configuring and maintaining common infrastructure components like Nginx/Apache/Postgres/Rabbitmq/Celery/Active Directory.

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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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: