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Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering

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254K-313K Annually
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
254K-313K Annually
Senior level
Leads and mentors site reliability engineering teams supporting products across thousands of clusters and global enterprises. Drives reliability, scalability, security, usability, product lifecycle requirements, technical innovation, system design, and solutions development. Partners with stakeholders on product roadmaps and operates in an Agile environment to deliver SRE initiatives while building accountable, collaborative teams.
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Job Title: Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering
Work Location: 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Job Description:
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the following role in Cambridge, MA (multiple openings): Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering Leading, managing and mentoring a team of talented site reliability engineers who manage and support Akamai products; Improving reliability, scalability, security, and usability for thousands of clusters and global enterprises; Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards; 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. Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States. [AG1507]
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Required Qualification:
Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Applications, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus four (4) years of experience in the Job offered or closely related engineering role.  
Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Applications, or Telecommunications Engineering, plus six (6) years of experience in the Job offered or closely related engineering role.
Must have: Four (4) years of experience with the following: GIT, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, XLDeploy, XLRelease, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, AZURE, Java/J2EE, Spring/Spring boot, RESTFul Services, Oracle, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, JBOSS, and Websphere. Any amount of experience with the following: CI/CD Automation, IaC, Object Oriented Programming, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Docker, CDK, and Web Services. 
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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.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $254155-$313100 /year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. 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, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

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