Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies?

Join our Compute Team!

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II in the Virtualization & Host Platforms (VHP) team, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud platform hardware and software compute host technologies. Our team is responsible for all physical and virtual Linux platform software and we work closely with hardware teams to define and enable new server builds.

As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
• Designing/implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
• Developing subject matter expertise in VHP components.
• 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

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Possess expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware
• Possess advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
• Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization
• Have advanced level experience in DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems
• Have experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale
• Have great communication and interpersonal skills
• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

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