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As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will specialize in creating solutions that help improve automation and efficiencies across all internal teams. You will be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance tuning, and hardware engineering.
As a Senior Linux Engineering Team, you will be responsible for:
- Providing support and mentorship for other Linux engineers within the department
- Defining requirements as part of the product lifecycle to influence the new designs and standards
- Providing support, leadership and motivation for project teams.
- Collaborating with our support, operations and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex problems
- Improving our system monitoring and analysis platform to speed error detection and remediation, enhancing performance and reliability
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Computer Science or its equivalent
- Possess expert level experience in a SysAdmin (Linux/Unix Administration), DevOps or Software engineering role, working with large scale distributed systems
- Possess at least one programming language (Python/Golang) and configuration management with Terraform/SaltStack
- Experience with architecting software and infrastructure at scale
- Be able to work in alignment with strategic business initiatives and coordinate the work of other engineers
- Possess informed opinions on technology and software design to bring to the table
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.