Cloud Platform Principal Architect

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

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Architect to shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will lead cross-team design efforts to power Akamai's cloud products and ensure security, reliability, and scalability.

You will engage with internal stakeholders and external partners, translate strategy into architectures, and provide hands-on guidance to advance the cloud platform roadmap.

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
• Experience with high availability software systems and security/reliability/operability objectives
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN)
• Expertise in cloud workload management (containers, VMs) and control plane paradigms
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with public cloud experience
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices
• Experience modernizing system designs for enterprise-scale scalability and observability

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed architectures

High availability

Security & reliability

Networking protocols

Cloud workload management

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS experience

Technology evaluation

System modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Architect to shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will lead cross-team design efforts to power Akamai's cloud products and ensure security, reliability, and scalability.

You will engage with internal stakeholders and external partners, translate strategy into architectures, and provide hands-on guidance to advance the cloud platform roadmap.