Senior Architect – Cloud Compute & Virtualization

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

ESPP

Job summary

A Senior Architect in Akamai Cloud's CTG leads the architecture and design of our infra services, focusing on OS, hypervisors, virtualization, and containers within a Kubernetes-based cloud platform. You will work embedded with engineering teams and help guide the Compute system architecture.

You will own system design, build PoCs, partner with product managers, shape the roadmap, mentor engineers, and drive best practices in an Agile environment to deliver scalable, reliable cloud

Qualifications

• Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Demonstrate extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and large-scale distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Cilium, etc.)
• Have advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization
• Have experience and solid understanding of containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash
• Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings

Responsibilities

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture
• Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and recommend technologies
• Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction
• Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders
• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Skills

Operating Systems

Hypervisors

Virtual Machines

Containers

Go

Python

Bash

Linux Internals

Kubernetes

Docker

systemd

Cilium

QEMU

KVM

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

qemu

kvm

Cilium

systemd

Docker

containerd

Kubernetes

Job description

A Senior Architect in Akamai Cloud's CTG leads the architecture and design of our infra services, focusing on OS, hypervisors, virtualization, and containers within a Kubernetes-based cloud platform. You will work embedded with engineering teams and help guide the Compute system architecture.

You will own system design, build PoCs, partner with product managers, shape the roadmap, mentor engineers, and drive best practices in an Agile environment to deliver scalable, reliable cloud