Senior Cloud Architect - Remote/Hybrid Data Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

PTO / vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead cloud data services design, implementation, and governance. You will own scalable architectures, drive engineering execution, and align with product and SRE partners.

This role emphasizes technical direction and hands-on development across global teams. You will design distributed data systems, mentor engineers, and convert prototypes into production-ready patterns while ensuring security and high availability in a fast-paced cloud

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience
• Expertise in reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates and deployment patterns
• Scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash or similar languages
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle Database and MongoDB
• Hands-on experience with in-memory and key-value technologies like Redis and Valkey
• Understanding of distributed data systems designed for horizontal scalability and high availability

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures
• Evaluate cloud technologies for new platform capabilities and services
• Serve as SME for database architectures including PostgreSQL, Oracle and MongoDB
• Design highly available, replicated, clustered, distributed database architectures
• Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and reference implementations to validate scalability and security
• Convert prototypes into production-ready architecture patterns

Skills

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Distributed data systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect to lead cloud data services design, implementation, and governance. You will own scalable architectures, drive engineering execution, and align with product and SRE partners.

This role emphasizes technical direction and hands-on development across global teams. You will design distributed data systems, mentor engineers, and convert prototypes into production-ready patterns while ensuring security and high availability in a fast-paced cloud