Lead Cloud Platform Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase adapts to job needs

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for our Cloud Technology Group to design and evolve our global cloud platform. You will drive foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and collaborate across engineering to realize a unified platform vision.

You will lead strategic decisions on architecture, security, reliability, and observability for large-scale systems, working with partners and stakeholders globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in a related field.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in architecture and design.
• Extensive experience developing architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud workloads and public cloud offerings.
• Experience ensuring security, reliability and observability in cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with architects across engineering to define unified cloud architectures.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to meet platform goals.
• Ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Security & reliability

Architecture strategy

Public cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for our Cloud Technology Group to design and evolve our global cloud platform. You will drive foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and collaborate across engineering to realize a unified platform vision.

You will lead strategic decisions on architecture, security, reliability, and observability for large-scale systems, working with partners and stakeholders globally.