Senior Architect, Compute Virtualization & Cloud Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

FlexBase program

401K savings plan

Equity awards

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the architecture and design of our Compute Platform within the Cloud Technology Group. You will be embedded with engineering teams, shaping IaaS and containerized services on a scalable cloud platform.

You will own system design, evaluate technologies through PoCs, and collaborate with product managers and architects to steer the roadmap. Strong Linux, virtualization, and cloud-native experience is essential.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• 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.).
• Advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization.
• 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

Cloud-Native

Go

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

qemu

KVM

Cilium

Docker

containerd

Kubernetes

systemd

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the architecture and design of our Compute Platform within the Cloud Technology Group. You will be embedded with engineering teams, shaping IaaS and containerized services on a scalable cloud platform.

You will own system design, evaluate technologies through PoCs, and collaborate with product managers and architects to steer the roadmap. Strong Linux, virtualization, and cloud-native experience is essential.