Senior Release Engineer
Are you excited about working on cutting-edge technologies? Are you a fast learner, fascinated to drive agile teams, connect, and deliver products? Join our Akamai Cloud Technology group - Edge Apps team We are a team shaping Akamai's vision for exceptional digital experiences. Responsibilities include designing interfaces, applications, APIs, and services. Efforts focus on enabling customers and stakeholders to develop software using top internal and external technologies. Partner with the best As a Senior Release Engineer, develop tools, enhance automation, and establish procedures for safe release cycles. Facilitate interactions and build technical capabilities to ensure adherence to release schedules. As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for: Designing and implementing tools and pipelines to automate deployments and releases. Managing and facilitating engineering and release plans, execution and workflows. Collaborating with other teams to influence and shape an agile culture across our group. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Possess 4+ years of relevant experience and equivalent qualifications in Engineering or Management Information Systems Be an experienced facilitator with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to coordinate and plan activities of multiple teams Have fundamental Software Engineering skills: Python code building, scripting, documentation maintenance Be aligned with DevOps principles and know how to build and extend automation environments Demonstrate expertise with CI/CD, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git-based version control, GitLab DevOps, and monitoring tools like Grafana, Datadog. About us At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!