Site Reliability Engineer

Are you passionate about innovative security products and ready to solve complex challenges?

Join Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security Group) and help redefine how organizations secure their data centers and clouds from advanced threats.

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our R&D team and spread the power of Akamai Microsegmentation.

About the Role

In this role, you'll be a key contributor to our high-performance SaaS Cloud Platform

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design and automate scalable infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code, implement and tune monitoring and observability systems to meet defined SLIs and SLOs, lead on-call incident response and post-mortem reviews to continuously improve system resilience, collaborate with development teams on performance optimization and capacity planning, and drive the automation of routine operational tasks to minimize toil and maximize uptime.

• developing, improving, and maintaining Guardicore's Cyber Security SaaS cloud platform.
• leading problem-solving efforts for the entire technology stack in collaboration with other teams in the R&D
• Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analyses.
• Working closely with other R&D to develop a strategy for long-term data platform architecture
• Practicing infrastructure as a code (IaC) and GitOps using technologies like Terraform and ArgoCD
• Collaborating with Guardicore's development and research groups to constantly improve our platform and infrastructure
• Participating in the on-call rotation supporting the applications and infrastructure
• Developing and evolving our tooling, logging, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to increase observability and transparency

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think critically about complex technical challenges and optimizing production systems
• Have experience with observability systems such as Datadog/Splunk/New Relic/Grafana, or similar
• Have experience in Shell scripting and/or high-level Programming like Python and Go
• Have experience working with cloud environments like GCP, Linode, AWS, and Azure
• Have excellent verbal and written English communication and presentation skills

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.