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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hardware, Infrastructure, and Virtualization (HIVE) - Core Linux Platforms Team

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $121,400.0 - $218,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Linux, Distributed Systems, Apache Hive, Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Linux Kernel, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Akamai, Software Deployment, Software Systems, Virtualization Technology, Saltstack, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bare Metal, Puppet
- **Published:** October 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/3C4A6705D7C94C8FA1E2A0E39A293A4B/job/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.