Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) - Core Linux Platforms Team
Akamai•United States,
•$121,400 - $218,600•Hybrid
About The Position
Our Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
