Senior Virtualization

4 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Canada Akamai Full time

Are you intrigued by planetary scale, distributed, intelligent systems? Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems? Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team.

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Connected Cloud Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do - make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best. You will oversee a team of engineers focused on designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting solutions to advance the reliability, performance, and security of the virtualization and host platform software and services underpinning the Akamai Connected Cloud. You will both possess and build upon domain Subject Matter Expertise and lead your team to do the same.

As a Senior Virtualization & Host Platform Engineering Team Lead, you will be responsible for:

  1. Managing, mentoring, and growing a team of talented site reliability engineers
  2. Being an integral part of new product development by defining requirements and service level objectives
  3. Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate, troubleshoot, and remediate complex problems
  4. Designing and implementing enhancements to our observability and monitoring infrastructure and coverage in order to identify and correct problems before they impact our customers
  5. Developing processes, plans, and infrastructure to safely and efficiently deploy new software components and updates at scale
  6. 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:

  1. Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, or its equivalent
  2. Have excellent communication, mentorship, and interpersonal skills
  3. Able to work in alignment with and contribute to strategic business initiatives by coordinating and guiding the work of other engineers
  4. Possess advanced level experience with and understanding of designing, implementing, and deploying software
  5. Possess advanced level experience with and understanding of infrastructure at scale leveraging automation and infrastructure as code
  6. Possess engineering expertise in Linux system internals, kernel, common Linux virtualization technologies like QEMU/KVM, hardware/software interface layers, and/or advanced Linux system administration

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.

What makes Akamai a great place to work. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together. At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative, and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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:

  1. Your health
  2. Your finances
  3. Your family
  4. Your time at work
  5. Your time pursuing other endeavors

About us. Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge, we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us. Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status. #LI-Remote

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