Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative security products?
Do you thrive on managing complexity?
Join our Security Technology Engineering team
Security Technology Engineering builds platforms and services that stop attacks before they reach applications, data centers and Internet-facing infrastructure. Our software provides a secure, high-performance, and highly available recursive DNS edge service that leverages a distributed, data-driven policy engine
Partner with the best
As a Lab Manager, you will define, manage, and maintain a complex test lab environment. You will apply your knowledge and talents to help create innovative solutions for our customers.
As a Lab Manager II, you will be responsible for:
- Overseeing lab and all networking gear such as switches, routers, hardware servers, and virtual machines.
- Working with QA/Dev teams to define the needs & clusters and ensure all lab equipment is accordingly configured, updated, and maintained.
- Owning capacity planning for the lab.
- Maintaining an inventory of hardware and software assets, including license management.
- Monitoring lab infrastructure to detect, triage, and address faults and failures.
- Responding to assistance requests promptly, ensuring minimal disruption to testing activities
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's in Computer Science, related field or equivalent.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience with networking devices, hardware servers, and virtualization technologies.
- Have knowledge of Linux operating systems and server management.
- Show experience in capacity planning with the ability to translate development and QA requirements into infrastructure delivery.
- Have experience with automation tools and scripting (e.g., Bash, Python).Knowledge of software testing methodologies and SQA processes.
- Have excellent organizational and project management skills.
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.
