Akamai Site Reliability Engineer - Storage Regular/Remote 

Spain 

824524988

Partner with the best

You'll collaborate with operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable storage platforms. You'll create tooling to automate the lifecycle of petabyte-scale storage systems. You'll work with open-source technologies, including Ceph, to ensure Akamai's storage systems are reliable, available, and performant.

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

• Architecting new highly available storage systems and infrastructure, supporting a variety of workloads from compute customers
• Automating complex workflows and new deployments with Bash/Python and Saltstack/Ansible, increasing the reliability of our storage platforms
• Engaging and networking with Ceph developers and users, contributing back to the open-source community
• Identifying bottlenecks within the OSI model, improving performance and reliability wherever possible in software and hardware
• Tuning Ceph, the Linux kernel, and server hardware, maximizing performance for our customers
• Working closely with our hardware engineering teams to research, benchmark, and validate next-generation hardware builds

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems
• Be familiar with benchmarking tools like FIO, and concepts like IOPS, throughput, 99th percentile and tail latency
• Have experience in automation using Bash/Python
• Have experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or Salt Stack
• Have experience troubleshooting Linux systems with tools like tcpdump, iostat, strace, iftop, netstat, and iotop
• Have experience with designing, deploying, and running mission-critical Linux servers at scale

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.