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Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Cape Saint Claire, MDJob$146–264K/yrSeen 3mo agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$146–264K/yr
Location
Cape Saint Claire, MD
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network. The Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network will join Akamai's Site Reliability team to design, develop, and manage applications and infrastructure for Compute products, focusing on fast, scalable, and reliable network routing software for Connected Cloud customers.

Key focus areas include Partner across teams to ensure reliability, scalability and usability of network infrastructure, products, and services, Define requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards, and Develop automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.

Successful candidates bring 8+ Years Of Experience, Bachelor's Diploma In Computer Science Or Equivalent, and Experience In Site Or Network Reliability Engineering. Important skills include Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, Linux Networking, and FRR.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AnsibleSaltStackChefPuppetLinux NetworkingFRRBirdgoBGPPythonBashGoJenkinsGitHub ActionsArgo CDReliability EngineeringScalabilityUsabilityAutomation PipelinesSLOsHigh AvailabilityPerformanceTroubleshootingCode Quality StandardsArchitectural DecisionsConfiguration ManagementApplication DevelopmentCode ReviewScriptingCI/CDCollaborationCoachingThought LeadershipTCP/IPOSI ModelCisco Routers and SwitchesJuniper Routers and SwitchesDefining RequirementsAutomation Pipelines DevelopmentDefining SLOsCode Improvement

Qualifications

8+ Years of ExperienceBachelor's Diploma in Computer Science or EquivalentExperience in Site Reliability EngineeringExperience in Network Reliability EngineeringExperience in Software EngineeringExperience in DevOps RoleExperience With Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Match

Full job description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We specialize in building and maintaining fast, efficient, scalable, and reliable routing software and infrastructure that is responsible for all network delivery to Akamai Connected Cloud customers.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will collaborate across software development, operations teams and network infrastructure teams. You'll be instrumental in developing organizational standards and tooling to ensure the growth and stability of our global platform. You will be responsible for:

As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer - Network, you will be responsible for:

  • Partnering across teams to ensure the reliability, scalability and usability of our network infrastructure, products, and services.

  • Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards.

  • Developing automation pipelines to support development, testing, and deployment workflows.

  • Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.

  • Working with Dev and Quality Assurance teams to create more robust solutions, code improvement and stability.

  • Serving as a mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent

  • Have experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems

  • Have advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar

  • Have experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP

  • Have an understanding of networking such as TCP/IP, OSI model, and Cisco or Juniper routers and switches

  • Have experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code review, and writing scripts using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go

  • Have experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar

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. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm\_source=akamai&utm\_medium=social&utm\_campaign=benefits)

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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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 $146,400 - $263,600/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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,401 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$146–264K/yr
  • Maryland median$121–219K/yr32 salary ranges
  • US median$126–219K/yr1,948 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $205K, is 19% above the Maryland median midpoint ($172K) — in the middle half of Site Reliability Engineer salary ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 37 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Maryland and 2,401 across the US. 16% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Site Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,051 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 735 of the 2,401 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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