Remote Senior DevOps Engineer - Akamai

Description:

• The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a significant role in the development, automation, and security across the company's diverse portfolio.
• The role involves using systems like Chef, GitLab, GitLab-CI, Terraform, and Kubernetes to automate the testing and delivery of both Windows and Linux based hosted applications.
• There are plans to consolidate on a standard set of tools leveraging GitLab-CI and Kubernetes where possible.
• The engineer will support the software development process by identifying inefficiencies, recommending solutions, automating delivery, and implementing testing.
• Responsibilities include mentoring other engineers, providing technical leadership for medium to large projects, and offering escalation support for the Tier 2 SRE team in addition to internal DevOps needs.
• The role also includes provisioning and maintenance of systems, load balancer configurations, firewall rules, databases, and other automation-driven infrastructure tasks.
• Automating CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy software is a key function of this position.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or relevant experience is required.
• Candidates should have 6+ years of Software Engineering or Operations support experience.
• Comfort with various programming languages such as Ruby, Ansible, Bash, Perl, and Python is necessary.
• Good hands-on experience with Ruby is preferred.
• Effective communication skills for working across support and engineering departments are essential.
• Excellent experience with cloud hosting infrastructure such as Amazon AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure is required.
• Candidates must have excellent knowledge of source control management, preferably GitHub and GitLab.
• A passion for security and identifying opportunities to improve security and testing is important.
• The role requires collaboration with application owners and security vendors to update/tune Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Protection, DDoS, DoS, and bot mitigation security policies.
• A good understanding of networking protocols such as DNS, HTTP, SSL, SMTP, and TCP is necessary.
• Strong experience working with Akamai’s products and services is required.
• Candidates should have strong experience in monitoring and alerting for Akamai CDN/WAF/AAP/ASM.
• Strong knowledge of CDN platforms like Akamai, CloudFlare, and Imperva is preferred, with a focus on Akamai.
• Experience in CDN migration is also required.

Benefits:

• Granicus offers an attractive benefits package that includes a hospitalization insurance policy covering employees and their family members, including parents.
• All employees are covered under personal accident insurance and term life insurance policies.
• Employees can avail of an annual health check facility.
• Eligible employees can receive reimbursement for telephone and internet expenses.
• A wellness allowance is provided to avail health club memberships and/or access to physical fitness centers.
• Wellbeing Wednesdays include one global Unplug Day and two No Meeting Days every quarter.
• Memberships for meditation and mindfulness apps, including on-demand mental health support 24/7, are available.
• Access to a rewards and recognition portal and a quarterly recognition program is also included.