Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior II Site Reliability Engineer Lead to support its Compute products and services. The role focuses on architecting and delivering software, services, tools, and observability infrastructure for cloud hypervisor host technologies, while mentoring engineers, automating processes, troubleshooting complex issues, and participating in on-call service restoration.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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