Site Reliability Engineer II

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 Site Reliability team

Our team designs, deploys, and manages 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.

Help us shape the future of the Internet

In this role, you will collaborate with our operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable storage platforms, including Block Storage, Object Storage, and backups. You will create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You will work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are highly reliable, highly available, and performant.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Deploying storage systems to new locations and provisioning all storage-supporting infrastructure
• Automating repetitive tasks with Bash and Python, increasing the reliability of our storage platforms
• Partnering with multiple engineering teams to support infrastructure projects, improving the scalability of our storage platforms
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex storage problems within our compute and networking stacks
• Improving our storage system monitoring and observability, enhancing performance and reliability
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 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, ideally with Ceph or storage systems
• Have professional experience with NGINX and reverse proxies, SSL/TLS certificate management, load-balancing, and caching
• Have experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or SaltStack
• Be comfortable writing code with scripting languages, including Python and Bash
• Have experience troubleshooting Linux systems with tools like tcpdump, iostat, strace, iftop, netstat, and iotop
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 82,100 - 147,900 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. 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, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.