Saturday, October 6, 2007

Senior Network Operations Engineer at Akamai Technologies

Location: US-CA-San Mateo

Overview:
Akamai is the global leader in distributed computing solutions and services, helping organizations grow their online businesses without growing their IT infrastructures. With thousands of servers in hundreds of networks around the world, we use our computational and network power to transform the chaotic Internet into a predictable, scalable, and secure business platform.
Our customers trust us to deliver music, videos, games, software downloads, news, and web-based applications of all kinds to a global audience with unmatched performance and reliability. This includes some of the most established names in business, government, manufacturing, retail, and media.

Responsibilities:
  • Serve as primary escalation point for the Server Operations Center in identifying, troubleshooting and resolving network problems
  • Develop and document procedures for problem resolution
  • Create tools and scripts for monitoring the Akamai global network using tools such as SQL, PERL, Python
  • Perform advanced system administration for the Akamai deployed network
  • Serve as product coordinator on product development teams to represent Operations concerns.
  • Perform installations of Akamai’s proprietary software across the many different networks
  • Provide training to Operations and Engineer
  • Server as liaison to Engineering groups

Qualifications:
  • 5-8 years experience in system administration, network operations, or other related field.
  • Solid understanding of UNIX-based and Windows operating systems and of advanced networking and Internet principles
  • Proficient with SQL, PERL, UNIX scripting
  • Strong inter-personal and communication skills, attention to detail required.
  • Participate in on-call rotation
  • B.S. In Computer Science or related technical discipline
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