Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges? Do you have a passion for cutting edge technologies and tackling distributed system problems? Join our highly skilled Storage Team! We design, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure that supports Akamai's internal and customer-facing cloud storage platforms. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission to make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Partner with the best As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage, you'll collaborate with operations and development teams to build and manage our scalable Block & Object 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 - Storage, you will be responsible for: Architecting new highly available storage systems and infrastructure, supporting a variety of workloads from compute customers Working with highly knowledgeable engineers to develop, test, and deploy new features supporting large enterprise workloads Engaging and networking with Ceph developers, representing Akamai in the open-source community Identifying bottlenecks within the entire tech stack, improving performance and reliability wherever possible in the OSI model Tuning Ceph, the Linux kernel, and server hardware, maximizing performance and reliability for our customers Leading hardware R&D efforts to keep our storage systems on the bleeding edge, validating next-generation hardware builds Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent Have professional experience in a Site Reliability, Development, or Systems Engineering role, with large scale distributed systems Have extensive experience with more than one programing language such as Python, Golang, and Bash Have extensive experience with configuration management at scale using Saltstack, Ansible, or Terraform Have extensive experience with architecting, deploying, and running mission-critical Linux servers at scale emphasizing performance and reliability Possess experience building automation capable of reducing manual processes in areas such as provisioning, inventory management, hardware lifecycle, and failover scenarios Work in a way that works for you FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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