Remote Senior SRE - Linux, KVM & Cloud Infra

Akamai Career Site; United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Vacation PTO

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) team. This remote US role focuses on Compute Linux kernel, virtualization, and hardware platforms in Akamai's datacenters.

The candidate will enhance observability, mentor teammates, and develop scalable software and infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to prevent incidents and ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and underlying hardware best practices.
• 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 an engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Linux internals

Linux kernel

KVM/QEMU

Nested virtualization

Distributed systems

Automation tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Kubernetes

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) team. This remote US role focuses on Compute Linux kernel, virtualization, and hardware platforms in Akamai's datacenters.

The candidate will enhance observability, mentor teammates, and develop scalable software and infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to prevent incidents and ensure high availability.