**Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?** **Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?** **Partner with the best** You will apply statistical data analysis and an understanding of networking protocols to diagnose and solve some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges. You will work with cross-functional teams to understand and measure the performance and reliability of our platform and products, and influence their evolution.Note: this is not a QA, DevOps or Operations role. **As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:** As an SRE, you'll collaborate with operations and development teams. You'll build and manage our scalable storage platforms, including Block Storage, Object Storage, and APIs. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. Working with open-source technologies, including Ceph and Kubernetes, ensuring Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: + Leading SRE teams by providing technical mentorship, feedback and guidelines, and by organising project-specific work. + Driving partnership with Engineering, Operations and Product teams to help guide adoption of new features and processes. + Applying analytical skills and statistical insights to identify performance bottlenecks and reliability challenges, and propose solutions. + Defining, implementing, mining data feeds drawn from 3rd party and internal sources to produce insights that influence company decision-making. + Influencing company decision-making at the highest levels to identify areas for new technology investments. + Building software tools and systems to automate analytical tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reliability. **Do what you love** To be successful in this role you will: + Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent. + Have an analytical background with experience in statistical data analysis. + Demonstrate experience with coding in at least one following languages (python, perl, SQL, Java, C, R). + Make a habit of delving into the details of your own, and your team's wor.k + Have a proven ability to provide insightful and well-received technical feedback. + Have excellent communication and organisational skills and be able to articulate technical information in an easy-to-understand manner. + Possess experience with Internet protocols (DNS/HTTP/TLS/TCP). **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 (https://www.akamai.com/careers) what makes Akamai a great place to work Connect 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 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! Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status. \#LI-Remote