Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to design, evolve, and lead Akamai's cloud platform and global infrastructure. You will drive foundational solutions across engineering teams and shape architectures that power Akamai's future cloud products.

You will lead high-availability platforms, collaborate across product lines, and mentor teams while aligning security, reliability, and observability with enterprise-scale goals.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience in cloud platform architectures.
• Experience documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of internet protocols and security controls.
• Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
• Experience with SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and public cloud offerings.
• Leadership in guiding platform roadmap and architecture decisions.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with architects to define unified cloud platform architectures.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy across product lines and teams.
• Engage with external partners and internal stakeholders to advance goals.
• Ensure alignment of cloud platform with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through guidance and hands-on design when needed.

Skills

Distributed architectures

Cloud platform architecture

High availability & reliability

Internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP)

Cloud workload management

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Technical leadership

Strategic architecture decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to design, evolve, and lead Akamai's cloud platform and global infrastructure. You will drive foundational solutions across engineering teams and shape architectures that power Akamai's future cloud products.

You will lead high-availability platforms, collaborate across product lines, and mentor teams while aligning security, reliability, and observability with enterprise-scale goals.