Remote Senior Cloud Compute Architect: SDLC & Automation

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group designs, builds, and operates our public cloud computing platform. We develop applications and services to empower customers globally.

Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. As a Senior Architect - Cloud Compute, you will lead the architecture and design for our Compute SDLC, collaborate with engineering teams to build reliable, scalable software delivery processes, and define

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience leading the architectural design of SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, and software-defined automation.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud-native container ecosystems, hypervisors, and related supporting infrastructure technologies.
• Strong communication skills to bridge technical gaps across global teams and drive stakeholder consensus.
• Experience coordinating large-scale software patching, deployment operations, and system compliance standards.
• Understanding evaluation frameworks for assessing SDLC maturity and integrating platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Creating and refining system-wide SDLC processes to enhance platform scalability, reliability, and deployment visibility across engineering teams.
• Coordinating the design of critical integration points to enable comprehensive views of software versioning and global deployment operations.
• Providing technical guidance on design patterns while aligning stakeholders on long-term platform strategies and software architecture.
• Architecting solutions for shared SDLC workflows and conducting system reviews across Compute and related cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating and developing frameworks to perform due diligence on the SDLC maturity and infrastructure of potential acquisition targets.
• Identifying tools and defining metrics to ensure products meet monitoring, patching, and regulatory compliance standards.

Skills

SDLC design

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Software architecture

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group designs, builds, and operates our public cloud computing platform. We develop applications and services to empower customers globally.

Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. As a Senior Architect - Cloud Compute, you will lead the architecture and design for our Compute SDLC, collaborate with engineering teams to build reliable, scalable software delivery processes, and define