Senior Manager, Reliability Engineering - Remote

Job Description

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling system problems?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. 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

In this role, you'll focus on developing and implementing Akamai's next generation Compute infrastructure. You'll be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise on Linux networking, configuration management, and performance tuning.

As a Senior Manager of Network Infra Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Managing and mentoring a team of talented leads and engineers
• Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
• Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams
• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, 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 10 years experience, including managing an engineering team and a Bachelor's or equivalent professional experience
• Possess expert level experience in a DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems
• Experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale
• Able to work in alignment with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
• Possess excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
• Have informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table

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

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!
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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from $155,600 - $323,200/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.