Site Reliability Engineer Senior (KVM/QEMU) - Remote

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology

Would you like an opportunity to effect change at a leading technology organization

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team

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. We make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will specialize in creating solutions that help improve automation and efficiencies. You will be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This requires creative thinking with domain expertise in Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance tuning, hardware engineering.

As a Site Reliability Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams, investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to deploy new software components and updates safely and efficiently at scale.
• Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues.
• Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience (8-12yrs) and a bachelor's engineering degree in computer science or its equivalent.
• Possess expert experience in Systems engineering, Linux Administration, DevOps/Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems.
• Can troubleshoot any kind of systemic issues and develop large scale automations.
• Experience in Python (or Golang) programming language and hands-on expertise with Ansible, KVM/QEMU and Terraform.
• Be able to work in alignment with strategic business initiatives, collaborate with colleagues in multiple geographical locations.
• Have experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale with a sense of ownership and accountability.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!