Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Akamai Technologies — Canada · Posted ~15 hours ago

Head Full-time

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering Team management Mentoring Cloud infrastructure Identity and Access Management Reliability engineering Scalability Security Monitoring and observability IAM Monitoring Observability

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A management role leading a global team of site reliability engineers responsible for critical cloud identity services. You will mentor engineers, remove technical and organizational blockers, and oversee tooling and software that improves reliability, scalability, security, monitoring, and usability. The position combines engineering leadership with complex cloud infrastructure challenges.

Highlights

Leadership opportunity within a global SRE organization, with responsibility for mentoring engineers and improving the reliability, scalability, security, and usability of critical cloud services. The role combines people leadership with hands-on involvement in complex infrastructure and software reliability challenges.

Description

Job Description Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges? Do you have passion for cutting edge technologies? Join our Compute Team! Our Edge Technology's Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Partner with the best In this role, you'll help lead our global team of SREs who manage & support our Linode's IAM (Identity and Access Management) services. Our SRE team works on tooling and software that monitors and improves the reliability, scalability, security, and usability of Cloud IAM applications. As a Manager Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for: Managing and mentoring a team of talented SRE engineers and unblocking team members with regards to technical and process hurdles.Partnering with stakeholders to understand and shape the product roadmap.Taking ownership for technical and product innovation, exercising design thinking, analyzing systems and developing solutions.Organizing and operating in an Agile environment to drive SRE activities.Focusing on team goals and building collaborative and effective working relationships through establishing commitments, accountability and trust.Contributing to internal research processes, methodologies, and approaches to create and share best practicesDiagnosing system performance and reliability together with the team of Site Reliability Engineers Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will: Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.Possess experience in SRE or Development role, working with large scale distributed systems.Have experience leading and mentoring a team.Have experience building with cloud native technologies and cloud deployments at scale.Demonstrate experience with Container Runtimes (e.g. docker, containers, etc), Go, Python, or Bash scriptingBe familiar with software development practices and product life cycles through build, test, deploy, and iterative environments. 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. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai'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. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 129,400 - 232,800 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). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.