Cloud Platform Architect — Global Infra & Strategy Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K savings plan

Paid vacation/PTO

Equity awards

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for the Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of our cloud platform. You will design foundational architectures for large-scale distributed systems, collaborating across engineering teams to define a unified cloud platform vision.

You will drive roadmaps, engage with partners, and provide hands-on design to deliver enterprise-grade, secure, and observable cloud infrastructure across Akamai's global platform.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background in availability, security, reliability, and operability objectives.
• Solid knowledge of Internet protocols and security practices.
• Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
• Experience with SaaS, PaaS, IaaS across public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects to define unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve evolution goals.
• Ensure cloud platform aligns with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

12 years of relevant experience

Architecture development and doc

High availability systems

Internet protocols knowledge

Cloud workload management

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for the Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of our cloud platform. You will design foundational architectures for large-scale distributed systems, collaborating across engineering teams to define a unified cloud platform vision.

You will drive roadmaps, engage with partners, and provide hands-on design to deliver enterprise-grade, secure, and observable cloud infrastructure across Akamai's global platform.