Jr. Systems Engineer

Required Qualifications:
• Must have 2 years of level of real-world Akamai configuration experience managing various Akamai features across multiple domains. Experience with other CDNs considered. Ex. Fastly, Cloudflare, Imperva, CloudFront, etc.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability.
• Experience with Site shield and other Akamai security features.
• Strong scripting and coding ability across multiple languages and technologies
• Willingness to work flexible hours, on call as needed.
• Proven experience optimizing reliability and performance and scaling technical infrastructure in a fast paced and collaborative environment
• Strong analytical skills and ability to provide data driven recommendations for critical decision making, mainly around system reconfiguration and improvement
• 2+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, site reliability, dev-ops, system infrastructure, or a related technical role
• 2+ years of experience building and/or supporting web applications
• 2+ years of Linux Operating Systems experience including scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders Optional

Desired Qualifications:
• Internet security related experience
• Experience in performance tuning and application monitoring
• Experience in architecture and design of web-based architecture
• Experience in a technical leadership capacity - team lead/manager etc.
• Experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, etc.
• Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3