Job Description

Do you have a passion for network infrastructure technologies?

Would you enjoy building high use and highly critical global platform infrastructures?

Join our Network Infrastructure Team!

The Edge Platform team oversees planning, building, maintaining, and operating the global platform. They design, develop, and deploy essential technologies. This includes hardware, software, and network infrastructure supporting Akamai's products. The team ensures reliable availability and optimal performance for customers.

Partner with the best

As a Network Infrastructure Engineer in a maintenance role, you will remotely diagnose hardware problems. Facilitate router repairs, manage Akamai's hardware assets, and interact with datacenter and ISPs staff. Work with a worldwide team of field technicians and work closely with external partners and internal teams

As a Network Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Managing projects for server deployments and network installations through collaboration with cross-functional technical teams
• Managing remote hardware assets and troubleshooting issues remotely
• Diagnosing switch and router problems to ensure stability of Akamai platform
• Working closely with field technicians, ISPs and Akamai partners for installation and maintenance of Akamai Network Infrastructure
• Training, and mentoring of new engineers and technicians to share knowledge and up-skill your team

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2-4 years of experience and a High School / Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Have experience in network technologies and basic knowledge of routing protocols
• Have Experience with JunOS, CiscoIOS
• Be passionate about building productive relationships with customers, teams, providers, and partners
• Be able to interpret Ethernet port errors, optical power levels and Tx/Rx thresholds, and other port diagnostic metrics
• Have experience with with Datacenter portals

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.

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