Cloud Platform Architect Lead — Global Scale

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

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) seeks a Principal Architect to design, build, and operate our global cloud and CDN platforms. You will lead foundational solution work across engineering teams to power Akamai's future cloud products.

You will shape platform strategy, socialize long-term decisions, and ensure security, reliability, and scalability. Candidates should have extensive distributed-systems architecture experience and a Bachelor's degree.

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.
• High availability software systems with security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and computer security practices.
• Cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap
• Define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision with cross-team architects
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines
• Engage with external partners and internal stakeholders to achieve platform goals
• Ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with product goals
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

HA systems

Security & reliability

Networking basics

Containers & VMs

Public cloud

Architecture docs

Stakeholder alignment

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) seeks a Principal Architect to design, build, and operate our global cloud and CDN platforms. You will lead foundational solution work across engineering teams to power Akamai's future cloud products.

You will shape platform strategy, socialize long-term decisions, and ensure security, reliability, and scalability. Candidates should have extensive distributed-systems architecture experience and a Bachelor's degree.