Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead
Company: Akamai Technologies
Location: Elkins Park
Posted on: December 31, 2025
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Job Description:
Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and
infrastructure that support Akamais Compute products and services.
You will drive automation, operational excellence, and support our
customer facing applications and infrastructure. We do this while
maintaining Akamais mission at the forefront of what we do: make
life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. In
this role, youll focus on developing and implementing automation
and efficiency of the Akamai compute infrastructure and services.
This requires creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise
on Linux, hardware, and performance tuning. As a Senior Lead Site
Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: • Leading and
mentoring the SRE team, setting technical direction, and
performance goals • Defining requirements as part of the product
lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards • Providing
support, leadership and motivation for project teams • Creating and
maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product,
and Support teams • Engaging with our support, operations and
engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems,
including incident management and post-mortem reviews •
Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair
of service-impacting issues Do what you love To be successful in
this role you will: • Have 5 years of relevant experience and a
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or its equivalent • Have
experience with architecting hardware, software, and infrastructure
at scale • Possess expert-level experience in a Development or
SysAdmin role, working with large scale distributed systems • Have
the ability to align with strategic business initiatives and
coordinate the work of other engineers • Demonstrate excellent
communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills • Possess
informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the
table FlexBase, Akamais 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, were 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,
youll thrive here. Working for you At Akamai, we will provide you
with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our
benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for
today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all
aspects of your life: • Your health • Your finances • Your family •
Your time at work • Your time pursuing other endeavors
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