Senior Cloud Intelligence & Benchmarking Engineer

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

Job summary

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

You will deploy workloads, benchmark performance, and deliver data-driven insights to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to translate findings into actionable intelligence for the business.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales.
• Proven ability to provision infrastructure, configure networking, deploy containers, and troubleshoot performance.
• Experience operating AI/ML inference workflows, deploying model endpoints, measuring performance and understanding cost models.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance and document results reproducibly.
• Develop and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads with standardized tests, models and KPIs.
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability and orchestration tools, documenting actual product performance.
• Produce battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales grounded in verified data.
• Collaborate with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items.
• Review and fact-check differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

Benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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

You will deploy workloads, benchmark performance, and deliver data-driven insights to influence architecture and go-to-market strategies. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to translate findings into actionable intelligence for the business.