Senior Cloud Platform Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Join Akamai Technologies as a Principal Architect in our Cloud Technology Group in Boston. You will drive the evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure and platform services, leading cross-team architecture initiatives, and shaping a unified cloud platform roadmap for scalable, secure, high-availability systems.

You will engage with stakeholders across the company, define long-term technical strategy, and provide leadership with hands-on design to deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with high availability software systems and achieving security, reliability and operability objectives.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management (containers, VMs) and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation).
• Understanding SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
• Experience modernizing/refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade scalability, observability.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects across engineering to define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams to advance our cloud platform vision.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders across the company to achieve our platform evolution goals.
• Work with counterparts in engineering to ensure that our cloud platform architecture aligns well with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through both high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed to execute against our cloud platform roadmap.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Cloud platforms & services

High availability systems

Security concepts

TCP/IP/DNS/HTTP

Cloud workload management

SaaS/PaaS/IaaS understanding

Strategic decision making

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Architectural frameworks

Job description

Join Akamai Technologies as a Principal Architect in our Cloud Technology Group in Boston. You will drive the evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure and platform services, leading cross-team architecture initiatives, and shaping a unified cloud platform roadmap for scalable, secure, high-availability systems.

You will engage with stakeholders across the company, define long-term technical strategy, and provide leadership with hands-on design to deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions.