Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have passion for cutting edge technologies?

Join our Compute Team!

Our Edge Technologys Compute division, formerly Linode, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamais Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamais mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, youll help lead our global team of SREs who manage & support our Linodes 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 practices
• Diagnosing 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 Bachelors 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 scripting
• Be 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 youre streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, were the engine behind the scenes. We provide the worlds 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 worlds biggest moments without a glitch.
AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure,



and scale AI apps on the worlds most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we dont just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every outstanding digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And were 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 jobs needs

Akamais FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. Its not about telling employees where to work; its 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.

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.