Senior Cloud Intelligence & Benchmarking Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and measure performance.

You will develop benchmarking frameworks, assess competitor architectures, and create actionable intelligence for go-to-market strategies. You will collaborate with Product Management and Sales to translate findings into battle cards, content, and roadmap recommendations, ensuring credible, data-driven insights for

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results.
• Develop benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads and KPIs.
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience.
• Produce battle cards and technical guides for Sales and Presales.
• Collaborate with Product Management to analyze cloud products and provide actionable insights.
• Review and fact-check differentiation claims in marketing materials and sales decks.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Llama

Mistral

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and measure performance.

You will develop benchmarking frameworks, assess competitor architectures, and create actionable intelligence for go-to-market strategies. You will collaborate with Product Management and Sales to translate findings into battle cards, content, and roadmap recommendations, ensuring credible, data-driven insights for