Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead

About the Position

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology? Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team.

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this 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

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. HIVE is responsible for supplying our fleets with hardware and the host and guest Linux platforms that make them work. SEQ works to enable new hardware via our provisioning service, provide seamless firmware upgrade models, and collaborate with other HIVE teams.

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

• Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools to enable hardware platforms delivered by the HIVE team.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers.
• Developing subject matter expertise in HIVE 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for enabling advanced HW features in Linux, especially for ARM architecture such as NVIDIA Grace.
• Advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
• Expert level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
• Advanced level experience in a DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with tools like SaltStack and Ansible for managing infrastructure at scale.

About the Company

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

• Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
• Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
• Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
• AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from $146,400 - $263,600/year.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (PTO), sick time, family-friendly benefits, and an employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness.
• FlexBase program allowing flexible work arrangements (remote, office, or hybrid).
• Opportunity for incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

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