Senior II Platform Operations Engineer - Office (Cambridge, MA or Reston, VA)

Would you like the opportunity to solve technical challenges?

Would you like creating change at a leading technology organization?

Join our Site Reliability Engineering Team

Our Site Reliability Engineering team is a group of highly skilled and motivated people who debug, measure, analyze, and improve our systems. They are generalists with deep technical understanding, both of software and the Internet. This team ensures that our managed platforms for the DoD are operating at peak performance.

Work teams across Akamai

The team develops and supports Linux software packs that are implement on the production network. These efforts drive a robust infrastructure critical to maintaining the distributed and highly available content delivery and cloud services platform.

As a Sr. Platform Operations Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Providing end to end performance of Akamai's public sector cloud deployments.
• Becoming familiar with the networking and technology stacks deployed in Akamai's public sector cloud.
• Troubleshooting production problems at depth, and participating in an iterative improvement process focused on improving platform reliability.
• Performing comfortably in a rapidly evolving environment and committed to a constant learning process.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree
• Have excellent background in layer two and layer three technologies
• Demonstrate knowledge of Juniper Junos or Cisco NXOS based equipment
• Have experience administering UNIX-based operating systems over a TCP/IP network.
• Demonstrate advanced technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Have deep knowledge of SQL and familiarity with developing complex queries to extract data from multiple data sources.

Work in a way that works for you

This role is an at office role and will be performed at the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.

This role must be worked from the Cambridge, MA or Reston, VA office.

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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:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orien