Senior SRE: Cloud Hardware & Platform Reliability

Akamai Career Site; Polska; On-site; PLN 310,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's SEQ team designs, develops, and manages the compute host and guest Linux platforms, firmware upgrades, and provisioning services powering Akamai's global cloud infrastructure.

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will shape hardware qualification for x64, ARM, and accelerators, drive CI/CD improvements, and lead incident analysis with cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable server behavior across data centers.

Qualifications

• Extensive Linux server platform expertise including boot, storage, networking, and diagnostics.
• Experience designing and operating bare-metal provisioning and scalable automation.
• Strong Python and Bash scripting for automation, APIs, and deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Shaping compute-platform strategy and qualification for hardware, firmware, OS, and runtime.
• Leading provisioning and CI/CD improvements for bare-metal imaging and pipelines.
• Driving reliability, observability, telemetry, and safe rollout safeguards for production.
• Providing incident expertise: investigate HW/SW incidents and guide engineering fixes.
• Mentoring engineers, reviewing designs, and setting cross-team standards.

Skills

Linux systems

Provisioning & automation

Python

Bash

CI/CD engineering

Observability & diagnostics

x86/ARM platforms

KVM/QEMU/libvirt

Tools

KVM

QEMU

libvirt

BIOS/UEFI

BMCs

Job description

Akamai's SEQ team designs, develops, and manages the compute host and guest Linux platforms, firmware upgrades, and provisioning services powering Akamai's global cloud infrastructure.

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will shape hardware qualification for x64, ARM, and accelerators, drive CI/CD improvements, and lead incident analysis with cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable server behavior across data centers.