Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization
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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 Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Developing, testing, and distributing changes to software, services, and tools to enable hardware platforms delivered by the team
- Designing and implementing enhancements to our observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
- Developing subject matter expertise in our 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.
To be successful in this role you will
- 5+ 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 tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure at scale.
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