Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai Technologies is a technology company that provides cloud, edge, security, content delivery, and AI infrastructure. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will architect and support scalable network infrastructure solutions, develop automation tooling, define service-level objectives, mentor engineers, and troubleshoot complex network problems.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes
• Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions
• Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly
• Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations

Requirements:

• Have 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience
• Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems
• Have a deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts
• Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar
• Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP
• Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust
• Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar