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Akamai Technologies

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, MA

Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications across any device.

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About Akamai Technologies

Job Description

Overview

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will be an integral part of a team working to strategically apply blockchain technologies to new and innovative business areas, resulting in high-throughput transaction systems at global scale. If you want to work on extremely challenging technology problems of global scale, then this is the role for you.

About the Team

Akamai Labs is expanding its team with a mission to strategically apply blockchain technology to business requirements for a highly available, high throughput, highly secure transaction system.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements:

* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or its equivalent or
* 6 years of relevant experience and a Master's degree in computer science/engineering or
* 3 years relevant experience and a PhD in computer science/engineering

Required Skills

* 6+ years of experience working on Linux/Unix platforms
* 6+ years of experience in IaaS adoption or private cloud
* 6+ years experience with 1 or more of the following languages- Shell scripting, Bash, Perl, Python, Golang

Desired Skills

* Linux host system hypervisors including KVM
* Experience with configuration management / infrastructure as code tools like Ansible, Chef and Puppet
* Kubernetes
* Experience with distributed storage systems
* Linux kernel development and/or performance tuning
* SQL experience
* Experience with Content Distribution Networks
* Data center utilization monitoring and COGs modeling
* Designing, implementing and deploying continuous build/deployment frameworks * Site reliability engineering and/or work related including service performance
* Experience building scalable servers or distributed systems
* Proven track record of delivering large amounts of high quality, complex code
* Highly responsible, self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision
* Extensive experience working on multiple projects at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

About Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies is a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications across any device.

Size
10000 employees
Akamai Technologies

8 cambridge center

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