Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test

Akamai Technologies is a cloud and edge technology company that provides distributed platform services. The Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test will automate testing, deployment, and validation for cloud-native platform services, while developing test frameworks, troubleshooting deployment issues, and collaborating with engineering teams on quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Working with engineering teams to identify how to test proposed changes
• Investigating and troubleshooting any deployment-related issues, identifying root causes and providing recommendations for solutions in various environments
• Developing and maintaining automated test frameworks for code changes, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests
• Creating and maintaining test plans and test cases for platform tools (i.e. Service Mesh, APIs, Control plane) to cover relevant scenarios and edge cases
• Collaborating in integration testing with other engineering groups and suggesting improvements to various testing environments
• Investigating requirements for safe deployment and rollback strategies, and verifying all requirements during the deployment process
• Writing and maintaining scripts to automate platform service deployment

Requirements:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Possess solid expertise in cloud native infrastructure, and have an understanding of system internals and performance
• Demonstrate experience in building Kubernetes workflows and testing products built on Kubernetes platform
• Have experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins, Github Actions, SaltStack
• Have solid Linux fundamentals, especially around performance tuning
• Demonstrate solid Bash and scripting fundamentals
• Have deep knowledge of network fundamentals (VRF, HTTP, TLS, TCP/IP, DNS, etc.)
• Have an understanding of modern software development life cycle processes and service level objective monitoring and alerting