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Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems?
Are you passionate about cutting edge technology and ensuring customer success?
Join our critical Media Infrastructure Service Performance team
Our Media Infrastructure Service Performance Team is responsible for defining, measuring, publishing and optimizing the KPI’s of Akamai’s platform. We are a team who enjoy taking a holistic view of complex systems. We collaborate with multiple teams to tackle difficult problems that go beyond having simple answers. This is what makes the job rewarding to anyone seeking a challenge.
Collaborate with others to build the best solutions for customers
As a Senior Performance Engineer, you will trouble-shoot, assess performance and capacity of our platform, and make improvement recommendations. Having identified customer improvements, you’ll work with product and engineering teams to implement new features and products. In this rewarding role you will help shape the direction of our products and services and how we deploy our network.
As a Senior Performance Engineer you will be responsible for:
- Designing, managing and tracking of Akamai's platform related KPIs to identify trends and changes to improve performance
- Proactively investigating and analyzing platform performance to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance our competitive advantage
- Collaborating with internal teams to help trouble-shoot and resolve escalations and incidents for our customers
- Working with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements and influence how the business deploys and operates capacity
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Have excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical information in a clear and easy to understand manner
- Demonstrate experience in internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, SSH, TCP
- Have experience working with and analyzing complex systems in UNIX/Linux distributed production environments
- Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solving problems and a drive to improve results
- Display excellent organization skills, managing priorities and multiple tasks
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Occasionally working remotely from home or any other work location
- Working flexible hours- balancing flexibility to work around your personal commitments while ensuring availability for customers during working hours
- Please discuss your preferred working patterns with the recruiter during the process
Working with us
At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.
Working for you
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 endeavours
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled team drive progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.
Join us
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 challenge and inspire you!
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.