DevOps Engineer

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems in cloud and hybrid environments
• Define, measure, and report SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Identify reliability risks and implement mitigation strategies across the system lifecycle
• Conduct capacity planning and performance modeling
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions
• Define actionable alerting thresholds and analyze reliability trends and metrics
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead production incident response
• Coordinate troubleshooting across development, infrastructure, and security teams
• Conduct post-incident reviews and develop corrective and preventive action plans
• Track recurring issues and ensure root causes are resolved
• Automate operational tasks and develop scripts, tools, and services to improve reliability and reduce MTTR
• Participate in architecture and design reviews focused on reliability, resiliency, and recoverability
• Validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans; test failover mechanisms
• Support chaos engineering, fault injection testing, and resilience validation
• Partner with DevOps, Platform, and Security teams
• Document reliability standards, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Support compliance and audit activities including FedRAMP, FISMA, and internal operational controls

Reliability Engineer

• Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, and managed cloud services
• Support high availability, replication, partitioning, storage, and connection management
• Build and enhance automation-first database platforms
• Develop Kubernetes operators, infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, and production-quality tooling in Go or Python
• Automate provisioning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and lifecycle management
• Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling
• Reduce operational toil and simplify day-to-day database operations
• Optimize database performance and cost across cloud and on-premises environments
• Support capacity planning, resource efficiency, storage optimization, workload consolidation, and performance tuning for large-scale systems
• Partner with application engineering teams on schema reviews, migration strategies, query optimization, connection management, and zero-downtime deployments
• Leverage AI for observability, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, documentation, predictive insights, and evaluation of AI-generated code

Database Reliability Engineer

• Manage system availability
• Automate operational tasks
• Enhance service reliability and performance
• Provide 24/7 emergency and second- and third-level support for products
• Restore services quickly by taking immediate action when downtime occurs
• Develop automation scripts to reduce manual intervention in operations
• Implement monitoring and alerting strategies for infrastructure and applications
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem analyses
• Work with development teams to design resilient systems and implement SRE best practices
• Handle infrastructure reliability tasks and small-scale automation efforts independently
• Work with development and operations teams to improve service availability
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in reliability engineering

Site Reliability Engineer

• Define requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence new designs and standards
• Provide support, leadership and motivation for project teams
• Create and maintain SLOs and KPIs
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
• Engage with support, operations, hardware, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
• Manage incidents and conduct post-mortem reviews
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
• Develop and implement automation and efficiency improvements for Akamai compute infrastructure and services
• Support customer-facing applications and infrastructure

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Lead

• Automate infrastructure configuration using AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Packer, and Terraform
• Automate tasks and integrate ChatOps with Lambda functions using Python and Node.js
• Maintain and improve container build systems with Docker and Jenkins
• Participate in the weekly on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
• Configure and maintain secrets management, service discovery, and container orchestration systems
• Perform code reviews for internal services and infrastructure changes
• Conduct experiments and research spikes for proposed changes
• Collaborate with R&D and architecture teams on production defects and runtime inefficiencies
• Work with development teams to improve system operability
• Define, track, and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Build and maintain observability pipelines and dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Splunk
• Lead incident response and on-call escalations via PagerDuty
• Facilitate blameless post-mortems and drive systemic improvements

• Monitor CI/CD pipeline runs and investigate basic failures
• Escalate recurring or complex pipeline issues to senior DevOps team members
• Maintain build and deployment documentation, including runbooks, setup steps, and troubleshooting notes
• Assist with access requests, environment checks, release support activities, and tool configuration updates
• Support the design, maintenance, and operation of CI/CD pipelines used to build, package, test, and deploy products
• Help automate repetitive processes and support software release activities
• Contribute to continuous improvement across development teams
• Support development, test, integration, and production environments under senior team guidance

DevOps Engineer jobs in Massachusetts

Reliability Engineer

Database Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Lead

Site Reliability Engineer

Co-op, DevOps Engineer