Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Does an opportunity to create solutions for Enterprise Grade, large scale, cloud infrastructures interest you?

Would you enjoy creating secure Kubernetes based frameworks for a global company?

Join our Large solutions engineering team

Akamai Cloud Data services (DS) group owns and operates the Big Data lake systems that collect, process and aggregate Akamai network metrics for the purposes of analytics, reporting and visualization. DS systems currently receive over 30PB/day of data and process over 5 trillion records per day. DS Devops group provisions, deploys and monitors Kubernetes clusters to host Akamai data warehouse.

Make a difference in your own way

As a DS DevOps software engineer, responsibilities include creating services to accelerate, secure, and automate DS Software Development Life Cycle processes. Tasks involve working with cloud environments, integrating open-source solutions, and Akamai-developed systems. Engagement spans cloud provisioning, network connectivity, Kubernetes deployment, performance, availability, and security. This role offers exposure to innovative technologies, global collaboration, and shaping company-wide processes and solutions.

As a DevOps, you will be responsible for:

• Provisioning Cloud resources using Terraform/OpenTofu and implementing secure Kubernetes services.
• Deploying, monitoring, and logging Kubernetes workloads using GitOps tools such as ArgoCD, Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus
• Planning and building highly available services and disaster recovery architecture frameworks
• Cooperating with engineering support to troubleshoot complex problems across different specializations
• Working through all software release stages in both development and production environments

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have to be proficient in Kubernetes, Linux and Jenkins with coding experience in Python.
• Have to show experience designing and implementing large scale continuous delivery solutions
• Have to be experienced with AI tools/AI agents and demonstrate cost effective use of it
• Have to understand networking, security, performance for high scale applications.
• Have to be a self-motivated professional capable of working with minimal supervision.
• Have to possess detailed problem solving skills and experience in a global company.

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.

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