Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka
Permanent
Full-time

1 day ago

Job Category: Site ReliabilityJob Description:Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems?Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and ensuring customer success?Join our critical Nameserver SRE teamWe're responsible for defining, measuring, publishing and optimizing key performance indicators of Akamai's nameserver platform. We take a holistic view of complex systems and identify the measures that matter most to customers, performance and reliability of the platform. Partnering with multiple teams, we solve difficult problems that go beyond having simple answers.Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customersYou'll troubleshoot, assess the performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations. Having identified improvements, you'll work with product and engineering teams to implement new features and products. You will develop automation to reduce SRE toils for day-to-day work, including handling escalations and proactive monitoring.As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Designing, managing and tracking of Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance
Acting as an escalation point for support, platform and product teams to ensure platform/customer issues are resolved
Investigating and analysing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our advantage
Leveraging skills in data analysis, network diagnostics and debugging tools to characterize the performance and capacity of large-scale distributed systems
Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers
Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity

Do what you loveTo be successful in this role you will:

Have 4.5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another quantitative discipline
Show good communication skills and be able to articulate technical information in a clear and easy-to-understand manner
Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, UDP, TCP
Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments
Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solving problems and have a drive to improve results
Display excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks

Work in a way that works for youFlexBase, 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.what makes Akamai a great place to workConnect 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 youAt 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 usAkamai 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 usAre 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!

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