Principal Cloud Platform Architect | Roadmap & Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services, driving key initiatives across engineering teams. You will design foundational solutions powering Akamai's future cloud products and guide long-term technical strategy.

Requirements include 12 years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, extensive distributed-systems architecture experience, and strong knowledge of internet protocols and cloud

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
• Solid experience with high availability software systems and achieving security, reliability and operability objectives
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN, etc.)
• Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices
• Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade 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 vision
• Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy across product lines
• Engage external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals
• Ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed

Skills

Distributed architectures

Cloud platforms

Security and reliability

Networking protocols

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Public cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group seeks a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services, driving key initiatives across engineering teams. You will design foundational solutions powering Akamai's future cloud products and guide long-term technical strategy.

Requirements include 12 years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, extensive distributed-systems architecture experience, and strong knowledge of internet protocols and cloud