Principal Cloud Platform Architect

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

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of its cloud platform. You will drive architecture across multiple engineering teams and define strategies that underpin Akamai's global cloud services.

Join a world‑class Cloud Technology Group focused on building scalable, secure and highly available platforms. You will mentor architects, shape roadmaps, and partner with external and internal stakeholders to advance the cloud vision.

Qualifications

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate extensive experience developing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Have solid experience with high availability software systems and methods for achieving service security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Possess working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN, etc.)
• Possess expertise in cloud workload management (for containers, VMs, etc.) and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation, etc)
• Have an extensive understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings
• Demonstrate experience evaluating and justifying technology choices
• Have experience modernizing and refactoring system designs to bring systems into alignment with enterprise‑grade scalability, reliability, and observability

Responsibilities

• Identifying critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap
• Collaborating with solution-specific architects across engineering to define architectures that lead toward a unified cloud platform vision
• Socializing and building consensus around long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams to advance our cloud platform vision
• Engaging with both external partners and stakeholders across the company to achieve our platform evolution goals
• Working with counterparts in engineering to ensure that our cloud platform architecture aligns well with other product goals
• Providing leadership through both high-level guidance and hands‑on design as needed to execute against our cloud platform roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Cloud platform knowledge

Security & reliability focus

Networking basics (TCP/IP/DNS/HTTP)

Public cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of its cloud platform. You will drive architecture across multiple engineering teams and define strategies that underpin Akamai's global cloud services.

Join a world‑class Cloud Technology Group focused on building scalable, secure and highly available platforms. You will mentor architects, shape roadmaps, and partner with external and internal stakeholders to advance the cloud vision.