Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. You will be embedded with engineering teams, shaping OS, hypervisor, virtualization and container strategies while delivering hands-on implementation and mentorship.

Expect to own system design, build PoCs, influence product direction, and help drive the engineering roadmap in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience building and operating highly available 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.)
• Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash
• 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

Linux internals

Operating systems

Hypervisors

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Bash

Cloud-Native

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

qemu

kvm

Cilium

systemd

docker

containerd

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is seeking a Senior Architect to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. You will be embedded with engineering teams, shaping OS, hypervisor, virtualization and container strategies while delivering hands-on implementation and mentorship.

Expect to own system design, build PoCs, influence product direction, and help drive the engineering roadmap in an Agile environment.