Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 7, 2026. Akamai scores A on the Alion truth index.
Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?
Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?
Join our critical AI Hardware SRE Team!
The AI Hardware SRE team is responsible for overseeing, scaling, and optimizing our next-generation dedicated AI hardware infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class uptime and reliability of our AI hardware infrastructure offerings.
Partner with the best
This position involves ensuring reliability and operational readiness for advanced hardware and software systems across regional data centers. Collaborate with product teams during development to optimize scalability, performance, and system reliability. Define and monitor key performance indicators while addressing breaches. Analytical abilities, coding expertise, urgent issue resolution, and dedication to maintaining service availability are essential for success in this role.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and scaling robust programmatic tooling and infrastructure-as-code utilities in Python to eliminate operational toil and automate fleet-wide provisioning.
- Integrating automated workflows across disparate ticketing platforms like JIRA, Siebel, and PagerDuty to enhance resolution times for hardware and network issues.
- Leveraging advanced AI utilities and LLM-assisted development paradigms to enhance technical execution, script creation, and system evaluation effectively.
- Enhancing advanced private cloud and compute technologies to consistently optimize availability, latency, and systemic health in high-density hardware environments.
- Designing and implementing telemetry pipelines, custom Prometheus/Grafana monitoring dashboards, and AI-based anomaly detection tailored for bare-metal and virtualized environments.
- Participating in 24x7x365 on-call rotations, spearheading real-time incident management, and managing high-severity service disruption protocols via automated PagerDuty and Slack workflows.
- Partnering directly with third-party infrastructure vendors and coordinating on-site field technicians to facilitate uptime activities.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess a solid Computer Science foundation, demonstrated through formal education or equivalent practical experience in large-scale SRE or Production Engineering roles.
- Demonstrate proficient tooling and coding ability in languages like Python to build scalable operational tools, API integrations, and automation frameworks.
- Show hands-on experience with modern observability stacks and timeseries engines, like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki.
- Possess a working understanding of advanced networking topologies, high-bandwidth routing/switching infrastructure, BGP, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks.
- Demonstrate expertise designing service rollouts, establishing operational readiness criteria, telemetry baselines, and defining effective alerting thresholds.
- Demonstrate extensive experience building technical runbooks, leading complex incident response bridges, and driving comprehensive, blameless post-mortems.
- Demonstrate a proven ability to fully own ambiguous technical challenges, coordinate cross-functional teams, and diligently pursue production-grade solutions.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether 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.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At 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.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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