Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Storage - Remote
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Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems?
Join our highly skilled Storage Team!
We design, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure that supports Akamai's internal and customer-facing cloud storage platforms. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Storage, you'll collaborate with operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable Block & Object Storage platforms. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You'll work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant.
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Storage, you will be responsible for:
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
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.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
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:
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!
#LI-Remote
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $126,100 - $261,900/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems?
Join our highly skilled Storage Team!
We design, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure that supports Akamai's internal and customer-facing cloud storage platforms. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
Partner with the best
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Storage, you'll collaborate with operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable Block & Object Storage platforms. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You'll work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant.
As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Storage, you will be responsible for:
- Architecting new highly available storage systems and infrastructure, supporting a variety of workloads from compute customers
- Working with highly knowledgeable engineers to develop, test, and deploy new features supporting large enterprise workloads
- Engaging and networking with Ceph developers, representing Akamai in the open-source community
- Identifying bottlenecks within the entire tech stack, improving performance and reliability wherever possible in the OSI model
- Tuning Ceph, the Linux kernel, and server hardware, maximizing performance and reliability for our customers
- Leading hardware R&D efforts to keep our storage systems on the bleeding edge, validating next-generation hardware builds
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
- Have extensive experience with more than one programing language such as Python, Golang, and Bash
- Have extensive experience with configuration management at scale using Saltstack, Ansible, or Terraform
- Have extensive experience with architecting, deploying, and running mission-critical Linux servers at scale emphasizing performance and reliability
- Possess experience building automation capable of reducing manual processes in areas such as provisioning, inventory management, hardware lifecycle, and failover scenarios
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.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
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!
#LI-Remote
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $126,100 - $261,900/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
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