Senior SRE: Cloud Platform & Automation Leader

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our HIVE team and help shape the Compute platform across hardware and software.

You will design, implement, and optimize automation, observability, and tooling for scalable infrastructure, collaborating with a multinational engineering workforce. You will work with Linux internals, kernel and virtualization, and use SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, and other tools to investigate and resolve complex performance issues

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in computer science or equivalent engineering role.
• Advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and hardware best practices for enabling HW features in Linux.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
• Expert-level experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
• Experience engineering in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with infrastructure management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef or Puppet.

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools for the HIVE team.
• Designing and implementing enhancements to observability infrastructure to identify and fix problems before customers are affected.
• Working with new tooling, code and environments and automating where possible.
• Creating supporting tooling using Ansible or profiling to aid in performance investigations.
• Developing subject matter expertise across Compute environment components.
• Collaborating with support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.

Skills

Linux internals

System administration

Linux kernel

Nested virtualization

Distributed systems

Automation tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

Kubernetes

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our HIVE team and help shape the Compute platform across hardware and software.

You will design, implement, and optimize automation, observability, and tooling for scalable infrastructure, collaborating with a multinational engineering workforce. You will work with Linux internals, kernel and virtualization, and use SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, and other tools to investigate and resolve complex performance issues