Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Our Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) 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.

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.

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.

To be successful in this role you will:

• 8+ 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 ARM architectures such as NVIDIA Grace

• Have experience with tools like Salt Stack and Ansible for managing infrastructure at scale

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:

Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

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.

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