About this opportunity
Akamai Technologies, Inc. lists this Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead opportunity in carson city, Nevada. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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 Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) 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 will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud hypervisor host technologies. The team is responsible for all of Akamai's bare-metal and VM hardware and software infrastructure platforms. You'll focus on Compute's Linux kernels, operating systems, KVM/QEMU virtualization layer, guest images, and working closely with HIVE's HW teams to ensure new hardware programs succeed in our datacenters.
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 advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware and best practices for enabling advanced HW features in Linux.
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 an engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems
Have experience with ARM architectures such as NVIDIA Grace
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:
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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.
Equal Employment Opportunity Rights
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Worksite address
carson city, NV, 89702, US
Who can apply
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