Cloud Platform Architect — Hybrid/Remote Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will drive architecture decisions that power Akamai's global cloud and edge platforms, coordinating across engineering teams to align with enterprise goals and security requirements. The role requires deep experience in designing large-scale distributed systems, cloud workloads, and high-availability architectures, with a focus on scalable, observable platforms

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management (for containers, VMs, etc.) and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation).
• Extensive understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
• Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs to bring systems into alignment with enterprise‑grade scalability, reliability, and observability

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution-specific architects to define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
• Work with engineering counterparts to ensure platform architecture aligns with product goals.
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed to execute the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Cloud platforms

Security and reliability

Networking fundamentals

Public cloud offerings

Technology evaluation

System modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will drive architecture decisions that power Akamai's global cloud and edge platforms, coordinating across engineering teams to align with enterprise goals and security requirements. The role requires deep experience in designing large-scale distributed systems, cloud workloads, and high-availability architectures, with a focus on scalable, observable platforms