Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?
Are you passionate about delivering the latest in Cloud Native Services?
Come join our Cloud Compute Team!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, and now Akamai's Connected Cloud (ACC), consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
Shape the future of our managed Kubernetes products
You will be part of a team responsible for designing and developing tests, contributing to testing frameworks, and managing test execution pipelines for our portfolio of products, which are designed to build and manage highly scalable Kubernetes infrastructure. We focus on test automation and automated workflows, with an emphasis on integrating testing into CI/CD release pipelines.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Being a major contributor in developing tests, supporting frameworks and CI/CT/CD pipelines validating Akamai's Cloud Native products
- Contributing towards building the roadmap and test strategy for enterprise features expected from a Kubernetes-based Platform
- Validating and testing cloud-native technologies and architectures, including monitoring, troubleshooting and improving test execution pipelines
- Participating in the definition and adoption of best practices, knowledge sharing and mentoring
- Collaborating with engineering teams, SDET engineers and other stakeholders in an Agile environment to ensure product quality.
- Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Have experience building and operating or testing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
- Have experience leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices
- Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible.
- Have experience with Pytest, Selenium, or other test automation and frameworks and comfortability leveraging Python or Bash for scripting
- Have excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills for resolving test-related issues in complex platforms
- Have understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems
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.
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.
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.
