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# Senior II Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $146,400.0 - $263,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Profiling, Linux, Distributed Systems, Apache Hive, Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Linux Kernel, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Software Deployment, Virtualization Technology, Saltstack, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Puppet
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_ddfee1aefff61f8b4889719ea4829bfd

## About the Role

* 8+ 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

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

 * Developing, testing, and distributing changes to automation, software, services, and tools the HIVE team is responsible for
 * Designing and implementing enhancements to HIVE observability infrastructure in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers.
 * Working in new tooling, code and environments and automating what's possible
 * Creating 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