Senior II SRE Lead: Cloud & Hardware Reliability

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

PTO (vacation)

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead to design, develop, and manage platforms supporting Akamai's Compute products.

You will lead efforts across hardware provisioning, observability, and scalable software infrastructure. You will mentor the team, drive automation, participate in on-call rotations, and work with a multinational engineering group to keep systems resilient while advancing hardware-backed features.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of hardware and Linux features for ARM architecture.
• Advanced Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization expertise.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale in DevOps/SysAdmin roles.
• Experience with SaltStack and Ansible for large-scale infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools to enable hardware platforms.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure to identify problems before they impact 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 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 kernel

DevOps

Distributed systems

Mentoring

ARM architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead to design, develop, and manage platforms supporting Akamai's Compute products.

You will lead efforts across hardware provisioning, observability, and scalable software infrastructure. You will mentor the team, drive automation, participate in on-call rotations, and work with a multinational engineering group to keep systems resilient while advancing hardware-backed features.