Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Linux Performance

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, 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. • Comfortable working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what’s possible. • Create supporting tooling using Ansible or Profiling to aide in performance investigations. • Developing subject matter expertise in various components across our Compute environment. • 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

• Possess expert level experience in Linux internals, system administration, and a deep understanding of underlying hardware • Possess advanced level experience with the Linux kernel, OS, and optimization of their configurations for KVM/QEMU virtualization • Possess advanced level experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale • Advanced level experience in a Development or SRE role, preferably working with large scale distributed systems. • Experience with tools like SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Kubernetes for managing infrastructure at scale • Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. • FlexBase adapts to your job's needs • Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.