Senior Performance Engineer - Remote

Job Description

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and ensuring customer success? Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our world-class Big Data Engineering team

Our team is collaborative, inclusive, and creative. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. We make it easy for them to build rich experiences on our core Akamai Platform. Our team plays an integral role in envisioning future innovations for our product portfolio.

Partner with the best

You'll be a hands-on technologist with a background in DevOps. You'll help manage our SaaS operations, with a focus on supporting customers. You’ll be part of our engineering organization, working side-by-side with developers and QA in an agile environment. Your mission will be uptime, performance and efficiency.

As a Performance Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

· Keeping Akamai web performance systems up and running 24×7, including comprehensive monitoring and alerting.

· Investigating and mitigating incidents, as part of an on-call rotation.

· Defining and implementing DevOps procedures and best practices.

· Improving our operational efficiency.

· Supporting root cause analysis. Benchmark, analyze, report, and recommend improvements to the systems and application infrastructure.

· Participating in technology research and support activities.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

· Have experience supporting SaaS application infrastructure, analyzing and monitoring complex distributed systems.

· Have experience administering a modern Linux distribution.

· Have an understanding of Internet fundamentals, like TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS.

· Have experience with at least one major cloud provider, e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.

· Have experience in scripting language (Bash, Perl, Python or Node).

· Have experience with a database back-end, ideally PostgreSQL.

· Have working experience on container technology – Kubernetes/Docker.

· Have excellent understanding of vulnerability management and security standards.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please discuss your requirements with the recruiter when you apply.

Working with us

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

Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled teams build progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to learn and make a real impact in a global technology company? Come join us and learn with a team of people who will energize and inspire

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