SRE Manager: Linux Platform & Cloud Reliability

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 152,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineering to lead and grow a team of Linux platform engineers, owning technical direction and delivery for Akamai's Compute platforms.

The role emphasizes mentoring, reliability improvements, and collaboration across hardware, product, operations, and engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and observable infrastructure. Strong leadership and deep Linux expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent.
• Have demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Have extensive experience with Linux internals, operating systems, and systems administration.
• Understand computer architecture, server hardware, and the interaction between hardware and operating systems.
• Have a track record of improving the reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of production systems at scale.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate across teams to drive technical decisions and deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of technical leads and Linux platform engineers.
• Set technical direction and priorities for the team, balancing platform evolution, reliability, security, and operational needs.
• Drive engineering projects from requirements and design through implementation, validation, and deployment.
• Partner with hardware, product, operations, and engineering teams to deliver reliable and scalable Compute platforms.
• Improve platform observability, automation, and operational practices to reduce service disruptions and accelerate incident resolution.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex, service-impacting issues and support incident response and on-call operations.

Skills

People leadership

Linux internals

System administration

Incident response

Observability

Cross-team communication

Technical direction

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

KVM/QEMU

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineering to lead and grow a team of Linux platform engineers, owning technical direction and delivery for Akamai's Compute platforms.

The role emphasizes mentoring, reliability improvements, and collaboration across hardware, product, operations, and engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and observable infrastructure. Strong leadership and deep Linux expertise are required.