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Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?

Are you passionate about delivering the core platform that enables everything-as-a-service for your fellow developers?

Join our Compute Team!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of our managed Application Platform

You will be part of a team responsible for designing and developing tests, contributing to testing frameworks, and managing test execution pipelines. Our portfolio of products is designed to build and manage highly scalable Kubernetes infrastructure. The team focuses on test automation and automated workflows, emphasising integrating testing into CI/CD release pipelines.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test II, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to developing the tests, supporting frameworks and CI/CT/CD pipelines validating an application platform built on Kubernetes

• Contributing towards building the roadmap for enterprise features expected from a Kubernetes-based Application Platform

• Validating and testing cloud-native technologies and architectures

• Developing best practices, knowledge sharing, and mentoring

• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment

• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience in developing test automation solutions using widely accepted frameworks

• Have experience with operating or testing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies

• Have experience leveraging CI/CD tools to achieve good software development practices

• Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible

• Have experience with Pytest, Selenium, or other test automation and frameworks and comfortability leveraging Python or Bash for scripting

• Have debugging and troubleshooting skills for resolving test-related issues in complex platforms.

• Understand networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP) and knowledge of Linux-based operating systems

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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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!