Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location US-CA-San Mateo
Posted Date 9/12/2013
Cost Center 229
ID 8914

About the Job

The Site Performance and Reliability Engineer has the responsibility to ensure optimal performance and up-time of our portal services and infrastructure. Candidate will analyze system performance end-to-end, from the clients (browsers) to the database, with a special focus on the Back End and infrastructure elements. Once bottlenecks and potential failure points are identified, candidate will propose and validate solutions that the operations and development teams will implement and test under his/her guidance.

About the Team

Luna Control Center is Akamai's public portal. It is the critical system that all of our customers interact with to gather web traffic analytics, manage configurations, fetch support materials and plan their online events. We are committed to dramatically enhance our customers' user experience and create a unique competitive differentiator in terms of feature set, self-service, speed, availability and security.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities
- Perform a detailed assessment of the current end-to-end Luna performance from the client to the database, including all systems dependencies, and report findings in actionable items to the development and operations teams.
- Operate and improve the site by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy and business-continuity planning.
- Develop and maintain tools for debugging and monitoring.
- Instrument existing code and/or write performance-dedicated applications to enable fine-grain tracking of speed bottlenecks. Graphically report, in near Real Time, Luna Control Center performance as perceived by our customers.
- Recommend and advocate best practices and tools in the areas of performance and availability throughout the Luna engineering community.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or Development of customer-facing, high-availability, large scale web-based applications.
- 5 years of experience in Java-based technologies.
- 5 years of PHP, Perl, or other Scripting language.

Desired Qualifications
- Prior successful experience as a systems performance or site reliability engineer.
- Mastery of Linux/Unix.
- Mastery in PHP or Perl Programming.
- Experience with virtualization and automated environment configurations.
- Experience with web-based Java/J2EE architectures.
- Experience in writing SQL and PL/SQL procedures.
- Demonstrated experience working in large, complex systems environments.
- Deep understanding of Internet and networking protocols.
- A passion for performance excellence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About Akamai:
No one carries more of the world's Web traffic than Akamai, so working with Akamai means you're helping some of the world's best known brands succeed in bringing any experience to any device, anywhere. Cloud computing, SaaS, eCommerce, online entertainment and dynamic personalized experiences are all fueled by Akamai technology. Join Akamai and you join a culture that's extremely intelligent, strongly supportive and passionately committed to delivering world-class solutions. Some of the best minds in business, mathematics, and engineering work at Akamai - leading, learning and shaping the future of the Internet.

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If you're excited by Akamai and would like to help change the online landscape please apply.

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.