Release Engineer II

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large scale distributed content delivery challenges?

Join our Mapping Engineering Team !

The team manages Akamai's mapping system and collaborates to enhance availability, reliability, performance, and observability. It establishes KPIs, refines measurement methods, improves dashboards, alerts, operational responses, and examines intricate technical problems.

Partner with the best

The Release Engineer II oversees the software release lifecycle, ensuring smooth processes and accurate documentation. Responsibilities include preparing deployments, supporting test infrastructure, and maintaining deployment pipelines. This role also ensures Hadoop databases and lab environments remain operational while facilitating release hand-offs.

As a Release Engineer II, you will be responsible for:

• Preparing release artifacts and documentation for deployment onto the Akamai platform
• Communicating with other operational teams to ensure releases are executed seamlessly and efficiently.
• Designing and implementing tools and pipelines that help automate builds and releases.
• Managing and facilitating engineering and release plans, execution and workflows.
• Managing and maintaining Hadoop clusters, including monitoring, installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and coordinating with development teams.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 2+ years of experience and bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or its professional equivalent
• Possess DevOps principles and familiarity with SDLC techniques. Knowledge of CI/CD tools.
• Have experience working with Linux/Unix systems
• Have familiarity with monitoring tools such as Nagios and version control system experience such as Git, Perforce.
• Possess knowledge with big data platforms like Hadoop
• Possess solid communication, collaboration and problem-solving 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.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

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 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.

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 energize and inspire you!