Cloud Platform Architect: Lead Global Infra & Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Equity awards

PTO

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to shape the next generation of Akamai's cloud platform.

You will guide architecture across distributed systems, drive security, reliability, and scalability while coordinating across engineering teams and product lines. As part of the Cloud Technology Group, you will engage internal and external partners to advance platform evolution, socialize strategic decisions, and provide hands-on design leadership to ensure alignment with

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience developing architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with high availability software systems and reliability objectives.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and computer security (TLS, VPN, DNS, HTTP).

Responsibilities

• Lead evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Drive initiatives across engineering teams to enable a unified cloud platform.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines.
• Engage with external partners and internal stakeholders to meet platform goals.
• Ensure architecture aligns with other product objectives and roadmaps.
• Provide leadership and hands-on design as needed to execute the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Security & reliability

Networking protocols

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Containers

VMs

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to shape the next generation of Akamai's cloud platform.

You will guide architecture across distributed systems, drive security, reliability, and scalability while coordinating across engineering teams and product lines. As part of the Cloud Technology Group, you will engage internal and external partners to advance platform evolution, socialize strategic decisions, and provide hands-on design leadership to ensure alignment with