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Akamai's Cloud Technology Group—Compute division seeks a strategic, hands-on leader to shape the next generation control plane. You will design and scale a globally deployed, multi-tenant platform built on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, aligning architecture with business needs.
You will mentor engineers, drive automation, set SLOs/KPIs, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Support to deliver reliable, scalable services.
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute divisionformerly Linode, now Akamai Cloudconsists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.
To be successful in this role you will:
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Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
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