Senior II Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud & Kernel Expert

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Phoenix (AZ)

On-site

USD 146,000 - 264,000

Full time

2 days ago

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401K savings plan

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Job summary

Join Akamai Technologies, Inc. in a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer role focused on Akamai's Compute and HIVE/CLP platforms.

You will architect, develop, and test software and infrastructure for bare-metal and VM hardware, while advancing observability, automation, and on-call reliability across distributed systems. You will mentor the team, deepen expertise in Linux internals and virtualization, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep services resilient and scalable for billions

Qualifications

8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
Advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and hardware features.
Advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
Expert level experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
Advanced experience in an engineering role with large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for infrastructure at scale.
Experience with ARM architectures such as NVIDIA Grace.

Responsibilities

Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools.
Designing and implementing enhancements to observability infrastructure.
Developing subject matter expertise and mentoring the team.
Identifying and implementing automation best practices for products and processes.
Collaborating with support, operations and engineering teams to troubleshoot problems.
Participating in on-call rotations to guide restoration of service-impacting issues.