Senior Cloud Support Engineer

Role Summary

Are you passionate about Akamai Compute technologies and services?

Does solving some of the Compute Support team's most difficult challenges interest you?

Join our Compute Product Support Group!

We address complex customer support challenges and transform them into insights that enhance the entire Compute Support organization. This role involves collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering and Product teams for in-depth platform investigations or solutions while offering guidance and feedback to the Core Support team to enhance their expertise and problem-solving abilities.

Partner with the best

Critical internal and customer workloads rely on resolving technical problems encountered on the Akamai Cloud Compute platform. The team serves as an escalation point for issues beyond Core Support's expertise. Beyond tickets and escalations, engineers actively engage in identifying and resolving incidents. Collaboration with the Incident Coordination team ensures timely reporting of impacts and effective mitigation.

As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Acting as the technical escalation point for mission-critical production customers.

Investigating complex issues escalated from Core Support through to resolution.

Collaborating with Site Reliability Engineering and Product teams to determine the best course of action for specific customer issues.

Working with our Incident team to address emerging issues with our platform and services.

Developing training, documentation, and knowledge-sharing sessions based on patterns identified during escalated investigations.

Facilitating mentorship sessions with the existing Customer Support team to help build their technical and troubleshooting skills.

Do what you love

Responsibilities

• To be successful in this role you will
• Have relevant experience in a similar Cloud Support role.
• Demonstrate experience assisting customers both in person and through written communication, showcasing collaboration abilities and prioritizing customer-focused issue resolution.
• Deliver feedback regularly to peers and cross-team members while identifying issues across multiple aspects of Cloud Computing products and infrastructure.
• Demonstrate advanced troubleshooting expertise in networking, DNS, firewalls, methodical Linux administration, Kubernetes, APIs, and object storage.
• Possess a baseline knowledge of managing AI infrastructures and working with AI operating systems and AI storage solutions like VAST.
• Use observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to analyze and troubleshoot customer-impacting issues.

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.

About the Company

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.

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:

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

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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