Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you have passion for cutting edge technologies
Join our Compute Team!
Our Edge Technology's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering, you will help lead our global team of SRE's who manage & support our Linode's Kubernetes Engine (LKE) products. Our SRE teams work on improving reliability, scalability, security, and usability for thousands of the Kubernetes clusters and include some large global enterprises.
As a Senior Manager 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.
- Partnering with stakeholders to understand and shape the product roadmap.
- Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, exercising design thinking, analyzing systems and developing solutions.
- Organizing and operating in an Agile environment to drive SRE activities.
- Focusing on team goals and building collaborative and effective working relationships through establishing commitments, accountability and trust.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 10 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Possess experience in DevOps, SysAdmin, or Development role, working with large scale distributed systems.
- Have experience leading and mentoring a team.
- Have experience building with cloud native technologies and Kubernetes deployments at scale.
- Demonstrate experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containers, etc), Go, Python, or Bash scripting
- Be familiar with software development practices and product life cycles through build, test, deploy, and iterative environments.
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.
