Senior SRE Lead - Hybrid

Job Description

Are you excited by the prospect of working with prestigious global brands?

Do you enjoy working with customers to solve complex technical problems?

Join Our Site Reliability Engineers Team

Guardicore, part of the Akamai Enterprise Security Group, delivers enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions that protect data centers and cloud environments worldwide. Our SaaS Cloud Platform is the backbone of that protection. It must be secure, resilient, scalable, and continuously deployable without compromising strict enterprise SLAs.

What You'll Own

We are looking for a hands-on SRE Team Lead to own the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of this platform.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead , you will be responsible for:

• Leading and mentoring an experienced SRE team while defining and driving the reliability strategy of a production-grade cybersecurity SaaS platform.
• Designing and evolving multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across cloud providers while owning availability, performance, and incident management processes.
• Establishing and enforcing SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and production standards.
• Driving infrastructure as code and automation standards (Terraform, CI/CD) while improving observability, monitoring, and operational visibility across the system.
• Performing and lead root cause analysis for complex production incidents
• Partnering with R&D, Security, and Product to align reliability with rapid delivery
• Shaping architectural decisions at the platform level.
  
  

What You'll Bring

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2+ years leading or managing infrastructure/SRE teams.
• Have solid hands-on Kubernetes production experience
• Have experience operating cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar) with a good understanding of reliability engineering principles (SLOs, SLAs, error budgets).
• Have experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform, Ansible).
• Have Software engineering experience with exceptional Linux and networking troubleshooting skills.
• Have proven experience handling production incidents and conducting root cause analysis.Ability to drive technical standards across teams.
• Demonstrate clear and structured communication skills.
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's 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.

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Benefits

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
  
  

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About Us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

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Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!