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We provide the infrastructure and services that enable our developers to build the next generation of the Akamai Cloud.\nPartner with the best\nIn this role, you'll collaborate with Development and SRE teams in building and managing mission-critical critical lab infrastructure services and environments. You'll contribute directly to scaling our infrastructure and management tools driving development and testing improvements felt throughout our entire organization.\nAs a Senior II Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:\nEnhancing an application responsible for managing reservations of physical hardware used by teams for testing their Akamai Cloud projects.\nDeveloping a software backend that automates the creation of testing environments to support dozens of services and engineering teams.\nContributing to the team mission of developing virtual machine based development environments that perform and scale to meet our engineers demands.\nIdentifying bottlenecks with development and deployment strategies, proposing solutions that improve reliability and performance.\nProviding technical leadership to other members of the team in the form of proposing improvements to coding and design patterns.\nBuilding reporting tools for tracking capacity utilization for virtual machines and physical hardware.\nCollaborating with a global team on solutions that increase the speed and confidence in which they ship products.\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nHave 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.\nPossess experience using Python to construct robust backend services, APIs, scalable platform automation, and intuitive command-line interfaces.\nShowcase a proven track record in developing resilient test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure solutions.\nDemonstrate in-depth expertise in microservices, cloud networking architectures, and relational databases such as MySQL and Postgres\nUtilize proficiency in container orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes\nLeverage hands-on experience with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and Grafana to advance system automation and observability.\nDraw upon prior experience in guiding, mentoring, or leading junior engineering staff.\nAbout us\nAt Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.\nWhether 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.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt 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.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.\nFlexBase adapts to your job's needs\nAkamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! \nCompensation\nAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 120,400 - 216,600 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). 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