Our Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
In this role, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. The team is responsible for all of Akamai's bare-metal and VM hardware and software infrastructure platforms. You'll focus on Compute's Linux kernels, operating systems, KVM/QEMU virtualization layer, guest images, and working closely with HIVE's HW teams to ensure new hardware programs succeed in our datacenters.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools to enable hardware platforms delivered by the team
- Designing and implementing enhancements to our observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
- Developing subject matter expertise in our components and mentoring the team
- Identifying and implementing automation best practices for existing products and processes.
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
To be successful in this role you will:
- 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Possess advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for enabling advanced HW features in Linux.
- Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
- Possess expert level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
- Have advanced level experience in an engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems
- Have experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale.
CompensationAkamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $121,400 - $218,600/year; a candidate's salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
