4 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and distribute changes to automation, software, services, and tools owned by the HIVE team.
- Design and implement enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure to identify and correct issues before customer impact.
- Develop tooling and automate operational tasks across new code, tools, and environments.
- Create supporting tooling with Ansible or profiling techniques for performance investigations.
- Build subject matter expertise across components of Akamai’s Compute environment.
- Collaborate with support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems.
- Work with physical, virtual, and containerized Linux platforms and collaborate with kernel and hardware teams on server qualification.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience and a bachelor’s diploma in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Advanced experience with Linux internals, system administration, and enabling advanced hardware features in Linux.
- Advanced experience with the Linux kernel, operating systems, KVM/QEMU, and nested virtualization.
- Expert experience designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale.
- Advanced engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with infrastructure management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, or Puppet.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement through Akamai’s FlexBase program, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
- Healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, PTO, sick time, parental leave, and an employee assistance program focused on mental and financial wellness.
- Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan; eligibility requirements apply.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.