Senior Cloud Intelligence Engineer

Akamai Technologies

Cambridge (MA)

On-site

USD 139,000 - 251,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA, seeks a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous competitive analysis. You will manage cloud environments, run benchmarks, and translate results into actionable intelligence for architecture and go-to-market strategy, collaborating with product management, engineers and sales engineers.

The role requires deep cloud engineering experience, including provisioning, networking, containers, AI/ML inference workflows, and

Qualifications

12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
Expertise provisioning cloud instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance issues.
Experience designing reproducible tests and benchmarking methodologies for data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provisioning infrastructure, deploying workloads, measuring performance, and documenting results in reproducible formats.
Developing and managing a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads with KPIs and models.
Assessing competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience during deployment.
Producing battle cards, technical comparison guides, and content for Sales and Presales based on verified data.
Collaborating with Product Management to analyze cloud products, provide actionable insights, and recommend roadmap items.
Reviewing differentiation claims in marketing materials, sales decks, and analyst briefings.