Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Linux & Cloud Infra

Akamai Career Site; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Work from home or office

Job summary

Akamai's Site Reliability Engineering team within the Virtualization & Host Platforms (SEQ) group seeks a Senior SRE to help design, build, and operate Linux-based compute host infrastructure powering Akamai's cloud services. You will automate processes, improve observability, and collaborate across support, operations and engineering while contributing to on-call rotations and incident response.

The role demands deep Linux expertise, virtualization know-how, and scripting skills for scalable

Qualifications

• Advanced level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware.
• Advanced level experience with the Linux kernel and OS and an understanding of virtualization technologies (KVM/QEMU).
• Advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
• Skills identifying whether hardware-test failures originate from firmware, BIOS/UEFI configuration, device firmware, kernel/driver behavior, or the physical test environment
• Skills using Python and shell scripting to independently implement solutions,
• Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale
• Great communication and collaborative skills.
• Relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
• Developing subject matter expertise in VHP components.
• Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what’s possible.
• 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

Skills

Linux internals

System administration

KVM/QEMU virtualization

Software at scale

Python

Shell scripting

SaltStack

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Akamai's Site Reliability Engineering team within the Virtualization & Host Platforms (SEQ) group seeks a Senior SRE to help design, build, and operate Linux-based compute host infrastructure powering Akamai's cloud services. You will automate processes, improve observability, and collaborate across support, operations and engineering while contributing to on-call rotations and incident response.

The role demands deep Linux expertise, virtualization know-how, and scripting skills for scalable