Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Hardware, Infrastructure, Virtualization
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer maintaining Akamai's Linux kernels, KVM/QEMU virtualization, and cloud infrastructure. Supporting distributed Compute products that make digital experiences faster and more secure.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, and distribute changes to software, services, and tools enabling hardware platforms
- Design and implement observability infrastructure to identify and correct problems before customer impact
- Develop subject matter expertise in team components
- Mentor team members
- Identify and implement automation best practices for 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
- Focus on Linux kernels, operating systems, KVM/QEMU virtualization, guest images, and bare-metal and VM infrastructure platforms
- Work closely with HIVE hardware teams to ensure new hardware programs succeed in datacenters
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience
- Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and underlying hardware
- 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 SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale
Benefits:
- Annual bonus or incentives
- Equity awards
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- Company holidays
- Vacation (in the form of PTO)
- Sick time
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
- Mental and financial wellness support
- Flexible work arrangements through FlexBase: work at home, in an office, or a combination of both



















