Senior Cloud Intelligence Engineer-Benchmarking & Strategy
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Job summary
Akamai is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous benchmarking across cloud platforms. You will partner with product management, sales engineers, and architects to translate data into actionable intelligence that shapes cloud strategy and go-to-market decisions.
The role emphasizes deploying workloads, benchmarking AI inference, fact-checking differentiation claims, and delivering content such as battle cards and technical guides for sales
Qualifications
- 12 years of experience across cloud engineering, architecture and related fields.
- Provision cloud instances, configure networking, and troubleshoot performance.
- Experience with AI/ML inference workflows and deploying model endpoints.
- Design reproducible benchmark tests with clear KPIs.
- Produce technical content for engineers and stakeholders.
- Present findings with honesty and transparency for credibility.
Responsibilities
- Conducting technical evaluations of cloud and AI platforms, provisioning infrastructure, deploying workloads and documenting results.
- Develop benchmarking framework for AI inference workloads and standardize tests and KPIs.
- Assess competitor architectures, APIs, networking, storage, GPU availability and orchestration.
- Produce battle cards and technical guides grounded in verified data for sales teams.
- Collaborate with Product Management to analyze cloud products and suggest roadmap items.
- Review differentiation claims in marketing materials and analyst briefings.
Skills
Education
Job description
Akamai is seeking a Senior Competitive Intelligence Engineer to blend technical marketing with rigorous benchmarking across cloud platforms. You will partner with product management, sales engineers, and architects to translate data into actionable intelligence that shapes cloud strategy and go-to-market decisions.
The role emphasizes deploying workloads, benchmarking AI inference, fact-checking differentiation claims, and delivering content such as battle cards and technical guides for sales
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