Senior Manager, Linux Platform & SRE

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 152,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

PTO

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of Linux platform engineers and drive the engineering of foundational Linux platforms for Akamai Cloud.

You will balance reliability, security, and performance while delivering scalable Compute platforms. You will partner with hardware, product, operations, and software teams, improve observability and automation, and guide incident response and on-call work to reduce disruptions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in engineering or a related field.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Extensive experience with Linux internals, operating systems, and systems administration.
• Understanding of computer architecture, server hardware, and OS-hardware interaction.
• Track record of improving reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of production systems at scale.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams to drive technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of technical leads and Linux platform engineers.
• Setting technical direction and priorities for the team, balancing platform evolution, reliability, security, and operational needs.
• Driving engineering projects from requirements and design through implementation, validation, and deployment.
• Partnering with hardware, product, operations, and engineering teams to deliver reliable and scalable Compute platforms.
• Improving platform observability, automation, and operational practices to reduce service disruptions and accelerate incident resolution.
• Leading the investigation and resolution of complex, service-impacting issues and supporting incident response and on-call operations.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Linux internals

System administration

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Incident response

On-call operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

KVM/QEMU

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineering to lead a team of Linux platform engineers and drive the engineering of foundational Linux platforms for Akamai Cloud.

You will balance reliability, security, and performance while delivering scalable Compute platforms. You will partner with hardware, product, operations, and software teams, improve observability and automation, and guide incident response and on-call work to reduce disruptions.