Principal Architect, Cloud Platform Strategy & Leadership

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Frankfort (KY)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 360,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) invites you to help design and operate our global cloud platform and edge services. As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will lead foundational architecture across engineering, drive the cloud platform roadmap, and shape long-term technical strategy.

You will collaborate with partners, mentor teams, ensure high availability, security and observability, and help advance our SaaS/PaaS/IaaS offerings.

Qualifications

12 years of relevant architecture experience.
Experience documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
Proven ability to deliver high-availability software systems.
Knowledge of Internet protocols and cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

Identify critical improvements for cloud platform roadmap.
Collaborate with architects across engineering for a unified platform vision.
Provide leadership and hands-on design to execute the roadmap.
Engage with external partners and stakeholders to advance platform evolution.
Align cloud platform architecture with broader product goals.
Drive long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

High availability

Security & compliance

Network protocols

Cloud workloads management

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Architecture evaluation

Refactoring for scalability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

You will collaborate with partners, mentor teams, ensure high availability, security and observability, and help advance our SaaS/PaaS/IaaS offerings.

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