Senior Cloud Intelligence Engineer (AI & Benchmarks)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick leave

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous benchmarking. You will evaluate cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and document reproducible results to inform strategy.

You will work with product, sales, and engineering teams to translate data into actionable insights, influence roadmaps, and ensure accurate differentiation across materials and briefs.

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales within enterprise technology.
• Demonstrated ability to provision cloud infrastructure, configure networking, deploy containers, and troubleshoot performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provision infrastructure, deploy workloads, measure performance, and document results.
• Develop and manage a benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads, standardizing tests, models, and KPIs for provider comparisons.
• Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability, orchestration tools, and developer experience; document 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 and recommend roadmap items addressing customer challenges.
• Review differentiation claims in marketing materials, decks, and analyst briefings.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Solutions architecture

DevOps

Technical marketing

Presales

AI/ML inference

Benchmarking

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Orchestration tools

APIs

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous benchmarking. You will evaluate cloud and AI platforms, deploy workloads, and document reproducible results to inform strategy.

You will work with product, sales, and engineering teams to translate data into actionable insights, influence roadmaps, and ensure accurate differentiation across materials and briefs.