Senior Cloud Intelligence Engineer - Benchmarking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with competitive analysis, benchmarking cloud and AI platforms, and delivering data-driven insights to influence strategy and go-to-market plans.

You will work with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to evaluate architectures, document findings, and produce actionable collateral for sales and presales teams.

Qualifications

• 12 years of technical experience in cloud engineering, solutions architecture, DevOps, technical marketing, or presales.
• Experience provisioning cloud instances, configuring networking, deploying containers, and troubleshooting performance.
• Experience operating AI/ML inference workflows and deploying model endpoints.
• Ability to design reproducible tests and present data-driven performance insights.

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

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, benchmarking cloud and AI platforms, and delivering data-driven insights to influence strategy and go-to-market plans.

You will work with architects, product managers, engineers, and solution engineers to evaluate architectures, document findings, and produce actionable collateral for sales and presales teams.