Senior II Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
The Senior II Site Reliability Engineer will work on Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. The HIVE team is responsible for Akamai's bare-metal and VM hardware and software infrastructure platforms. The CLP team focuses on Compute's Linux kernels, operating systems, KVM/QEMU virtualization layer, and guest images, and works with HIVE's hardware teams to support new hardware programs in datacenters. The role involves architecting, developing, testing, and distributing software, services, and tools that enable hardware platforms; improving observability to identify and correct problems before customers are affected; building subject matter expertise and mentoring teammates; and identifying automation best practices. The engineer will collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems and participate in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience and a bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Advanced experience with Linux internals and system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for enabling advanced hardware features in Linux.
- Advanced experience with the Linux kernel, operating systems, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
- Expert-level experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
- Advanced experience in an engineering role working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with infrastructure management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet.
- Experience with ARM architectures such as NVIDIA Grace.
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, test, and distribute changes to software, services, and tools that enable team-delivered hardware platforms.
- Design and implement enhancements to observability infrastructure to identify and correct problems before they impact customers.
- Develop subject matter expertise in team components and mentor the team.
- Identify and implement automation best practices for existing products and processes.
- Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Participate in on-call rotations and guide restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
Benefits
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation in the form of PTO
- Sick time
- Family-friendly benefits, including parental leave
- Employee assistance program, including a focus on mental and financial wellness
- Potential annual bonus or incentives
- Potential equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
