Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

7d•$146,400 - $263,600

About The Position

The Senior II Site Reliability Engineer will work on Akamai’s Compute products and services, developing and managing applications and infrastructure. The role focuses on Akamai Cloud platform software and hardware technologies, identifying performance bottlenecks, building tools to support investigations, and working with physical, virtual, and containerized Linux platforms. The engineer will collaborate with kernel and hardware teams to qualify newer kernels and operating systems on new server builds and ensure they perform well.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience.
A bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
Advanced experience with Linux internals and system administration, including 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-level experience in an engineering role working with large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with infrastructure-management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and distribute changes to automation, software, services, and tools owned by the HIVE team.
Design and implement enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure to identify and correct problems before they affect customers.
Work with new tools, code, and environments, and automate processes where possible.
Create supporting tooling using Ansible or profiling to assist with performance investigations.
Develop subject matter expertise in components across the Compute environment.
Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.