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Senior Network Operations Engineer

Costa Rica(Remote)

Job Description

Do you have a passion for network engineering technologies?

Are you looking for the freedom to innovate and help shape the next generation of the network?

Join our Network Operations Engineering team!

Our operations team is responsible for maintaining the reliability, performance, and availability of large-scale network infrastructure.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Network Operations Engineer, join a skilled 24x7 operations team ensuring reliable, high-performing, and available network infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support CDN and cloud compute platforms, enhancing observability and operational excellence. #CoreIPNetworking

As a Network Operations Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Investigating and resolving routing and switching faults within extensive network environments to ensure seamless connectivity and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshooting backbone, transport, and fabric network topology problems effectively to ensure seamless functionality and optimal performance.
• Leading and supporting the resolution of critical technical incidents effectively and efficiently.
• Providing expertise during incident response and conducting operational reviews to ensure effective analysis and resolution.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining alerts, runbooks, dashboards, and monitoring tools to enhance fault detection and operational visibility.
• Developing and maintaining operational tools, automation, and technical documentation to support extensive network infrastructure effectively and efficiently.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining and optimizing routers and switches.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a High School / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have 5+ years of hands-on experience operating and supporting large-scale network environments.
• Have excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer service skills.
• Demonstrate expertise in IP networking, routing, and switching; certifications like CCNA, JNCIA, or similar are recommended.
• Have experience operating and troubleshooting service provider networks and Internet routing protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and MPLS.
• Have experience writing, modifying, and troubleshooting SQL queries.
• Have hands-on experience with Linux/Unix systems and associated tools

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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Job Info

• Job Identification3315
• Posting Date06/19/2026, 12:55 PM
• LocationsRoble Corporate Center, San Jose, 10201, CR(Remote)

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