Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that

support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining

Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions

of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host

technologies. HIVE is responsible for supplying our fleets with hardware and the

host and guest Linux platforms that make them work. SEQ works to enable new

hardware via our provisioning service, provide seamless firmware upgrade models,

and collaborate with other HIVE teams.

As a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:

* Architecting, developing, testing, and distributing changes to software,

services, and tools to enable hardware platforms delivered by the HIVE team.

* Designing and implementing enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure

in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our 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 our support, operations and engineering teams to

investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.

* Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of

service-impacting issues.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

* 8+ years of experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its

equivalent

* Possess a deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for

enabling advanced HW features in Linux, especially for ARM architecture such

as NVIDIA Grace.

* Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, KVM/QEMU, and

nested virtualization.

* Possess expert level experience with designing, developing, and deploying

software and infrastructure at scale

* Have advanced level experience in a DevOps, Development, or SysAdmin role,

working with large scale distributed systems

* Have experience with tools like SaltStack and Ansible for managing

infrastructure at scale

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your

favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes.

We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the

giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the

internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's

most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because

behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're

the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures

it just works.

Benefits

at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life

beyond work. See our benefits.

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Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing

employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling

employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home,

in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based

candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $146,400 -

$263,600/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including,

but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and

location.

Compensation

for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation

package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of

annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K

savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family

friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program

including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements

apply.