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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.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Virtualization & Host Platforms (VHP) - Server Enablement & Qualification (SEQ) team, you will be at the forefront of Akamai Cloud compute host and server technologies. VHP is responsible for all Linux platforms from the hardware to the host and guest platforms, and SEQ in particular works closely with next-generation HW teams to enable new hardware via our network bootstrapping service, provide seamless firmware upgrade models, and work with other VHP teams to provide a cohesive and performant solution to our internal infrastructure customers and operators to ensure all servers succeed in our datacenters.
You will have opportunities to write software automating our processes, help diagnose and resolve challenging production issues, advance initiatives to improve resource utilization and customer experience, and learn from a highly skilled engineering team. This position will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems engineering, performance tuning, hardware interfaces, systems administration, and configuration management.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools the VHP team is responsible for.
Designing and implementing enhancements to VHP observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
Developing subject matter expertise in VHP components.
Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what’s possible.
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
To be successful in this role you will need:
Advanced level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware.
Advanced level experience with the Linux kernel and OS and an understanding of virtualization technologies (KVM/QEMU).
Advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale
Skills identifying whether hardware-test failures originate from firmware, BIOS/UEFI configuration, device firmware, kernel/driver behavior, or the physical test environment
Skills using Python and shell scripting to independently implement solutions,
Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems.
Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale
Great communication and collaborative skills.
Relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
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 who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Server Enablement & Qualification) - Remote
Fa-extu-saasfaprod1 · Poland
