Network Engineer II / Backbone

Excited by managing a backbone infrastructure that carries 20% of the world's web traffic?

Want to apply your network expertise to an internet-scale platform impacting billions of people daily?

Join our Network Engineering team!

The Akamai Network Engineering team designs, automates, and supports the global network powering Akamai's products and services. Using advanced technologies, this team ensures optimal connectivity and performance for customers and the compute platform.

Backbone Network Engineering focuses on backbone and edge connectivity. This skilled team builds, maintains, and configures infrastructure supporting Akamai's platform, which carries 20% of global web traffic.

What you will do

As a Network Engineer II, you will lead efforts in designing and implementing a global backbone network infrastructure. You'll play a key role in shaping the backbone while addressing complex issues in edge and MPLS routing. Your work will ensure scalability, reliability, and security across a multi-vendor environment.

This role is budgeted and only available in Costa Rica.

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

• Scaling the Global Backbone: Design, deploy, and maintain Akamai's massive-scale backbone while ensuring maximum network uptime and optimal traffic engineering.
• Optimizing Internet Routing: Manage large-scale exterior BGP routing architectures, peering relationships, and transit provider configurations for fast data delivery.
• Provisioning Capacity: Provision new backbone capacity, Private Network Interconnects (PNIs), and routers, while executing major infrastructure project implementations.
• Writing, testing, and deploying network configuration changes using Akamai's automation framework across both lab and production environments.
• Vendor-Debugging: Conduct deep protocol-level debugging in collaboration with hardware vendors to resolve highly complex network infrastructure issues.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage network telemetry and internal databases to drive data-informed decisions regarding global network performance optimization.
• Partnering Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with network architecture, automation, infrastructure, and NOC teams to maintain high network availability and reliability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a High school / Bachelor Degree or its or equivalent
• Demonstrate 5+ of relevant experience with a background in Computer Science or equivalent practical expertise in the field.
• Showcase practical expertise in BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, Traffic Engineering, and RSVP within a large service provider environment.
• Scale Architecture: Display proven experience in IP network design and routing architecture at scale within ISPs, content providers, or CDNs.
• Demonstrate exceptional communication abilities to foster trust and collaborate efficiently within a diverse, cross-functional international team.
• Demonstrate expertise in service provider network methodologies through holding a JNCIP-SP certification or possessing equivalent knowledge in the field.

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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