Senior Cloud Intelligence & Benchmarking Engineer

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical marketing and competitive analysis across cloud platforms.

You will partner with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies based on verifiable data. Responsibilities include benchmarking AI/inference workloads, evaluating architectures, and creating content such as battle cards for Sales and Presales.

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure provisioning, networking, container deployment, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience with AI/ML inference workflows, model endpoints, performance metrics, and cost models.

Responsibilities

• Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results in reproducible formats.
• Developing and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons (e.g., Llama, Mistral).
• Assessing competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience while documenting actual product performance during deployment.
• Producing battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales that are grounded in verified data.
• Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items to address customer challenges effectively.
• Reviewing and fact-checking differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

Benchmarking

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to drive technical marketing and competitive analysis across cloud platforms.

You will partner with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies based on verifiable data. Responsibilities include benchmarking AI/inference workloads, evaluating architectures, and creating content such as battle cards for Sales and Presales.