Remote Cloud Platform Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 186,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Architect to drive architectural designs for a suite of platform components in Cambridge, MA, with telecommuting options across the United States.

The role focuses on availability, reliability, performance, security, and scalability, with collaboration across development teams to implement designs. The ideal candidate excels in microservices, multi-cloud deployments, and secure infrastructure, and will lead architecture decisions for CI/CD, databases, and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in a technical field with 4 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with 6 years of related experience also acceptable.
• Architecting microservices and multi-cloud strategies required.
• Proficient in Go, Java, and C#/.NET; strong database knowledge.
• Experience with security, compliance (FIPS, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD with modern tooling; monitoring and AI integrations.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end architectural designs for platform components.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement designs.
• Design solutions for deployment, databases, and security.
• Prototype new product ideas and lead AI solution implementations.
• Lead agile delivery from concept to production.

Skills

Microservices architecture

Multi-cloud strategy

Go

Java

C#/.NET

Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redis)

Security (Zero-Trust, compliance)

Terraform/Ansible/Helm

CI/CD (GitLab, Github)

Monitoring (Prometheus, Datadog)

Education

Master’s degree in CS/engineering or related field

Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitLab

Github

Prometheus

Datadog

Restic

Rclone

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MariaDB

BoltDB

Redis

Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI/Wasabi

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Architect to drive architectural designs for a suite of platform components in Cambridge, MA, with telecommuting options across the United States.

The role focuses on availability, reliability, performance, security, and scalability, with collaboration across development teams to implement designs. The ideal candidate excels in microservices, multi-cloud deployments, and secure infrastructure, and will lead architecture decisions for CI/CD, databases, and