Senior Cloud Data Architect: Scale, Security & High Availability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

FlexBase program

Remote work options

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect for the Cloud Data Services team to design, build, and operate high‑reliability data services and pipelines powering Akamai platform capabilities.

You will balance system design, engineering coaching, requirements clarification, and hands‑on development. You will lead architectural direction, ensuring availability, consistency, and performance, and collaborate with product and SRE partners to turn prototypes into production‑ready patterns

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• Expertise in developing reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates, and deployment patterns.
• Ability to develop scripts and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, and MongoDB.
• Hands-on experience with 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

Terraform-based infrastructure

Python

Go

Bash

PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

MongoDB

Redis

Valkey

Distributed data systems

Cloud architectures

Education

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

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Architect for the Cloud Data Services team to design, build, and operate high‑reliability data services and pipelines powering Akamai platform capabilities.

You will balance system design, engineering coaching, requirements clarification, and hands‑on development. You will lead architectural direction, ensuring availability, consistency, and performance, and collaborate with product and SRE partners to turn prototypes into production‑ready patterns