Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Server Enablement & Qualification) - Remote

Join the highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team at Akamai Technologies, where we design and manage the infrastructure powering global compute products. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in the Virtualization & Host Platforms team, you will work at the forefront of cloud host and server technologies, ensuring our infrastructure operates at peak performance.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, test, and distribute software, services, and tools for host platform management.
• Design and implement enhancements to observability infrastructure to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex production problems.
• Participate in on-call rotations to guide the restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Automate processes and contribute to the continuous improvement of resource utilization.

Requirements

• Advanced experience in Linux internals, system administration, and deep understanding of underlying hardware.
• Strong knowledge of the Linux kernel, OS, and virtualization technologies such as KVM/QEMU.
• Proven experience in a Development or SRE role, specifically with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python and shell scripting for independent solution implementation.
• Experience with infrastructure management tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on a highly distributed cloud platform that powers the world's digital experiences.
• Engagement with next-generation hardware and cutting-edge virtualization technologies.
• A collaborative environment focused on solving complex, large-scale engineering challenges.
• Support for professional growth and development within a global engineering team.