Senior Cloud Architect - Remote/Hybrid, High-Scale Data

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FlexBase program

Hybrid/remote work flexibility

Job summary

Join Akamai Technologies, Inc. as a Senior Architect on the Cloud Data Services team.

You will shape scalable, secure cloud and data architectures, drive technical direction, and mentor engineers while working closely with product and SRE partners. You will lead efforts in evaluating cloud technologies, building production-ready designs, and turning prototypes into robust, repeatable patterns for a globally distributed platform.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, another related field or its equivalent.
• Expertise in developing reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates, and deployment patterns.
• Demonstrate ability to develop scripts 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

• Designing scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures
• Evaluating cloud technologies and determining suitability for new platform capabilities and services
• Serving as a subject matter expert for database architectures including PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Designing highly available, replicated, clustered, and geographically distributed database architectures
• Building prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations to validate scalability and security
• Converting successful prototypes into repeatable architecture patterns and production-ready designs

Skills

Cloud architectures

System design

SRE collaboration

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/MIS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Job description

Join Akamai Technologies, Inc. as a Senior Architect on the Cloud Data Services team.

You will shape scalable, secure cloud and data architectures, drive technical direction, and mentor engineers while working closely with product and SRE partners. You will lead efforts in evaluating cloud technologies, building production-ready designs, and turning prototypes into robust, repeatable patterns for a globally distributed platform.