Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Salem (OR)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 360,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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401K savings program

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will drive initiatives across multiple engineering teams, designing foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products. As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will identify platform roadmap improvements, socialize strategy, and guide high-level and hands-on design to achieve our cloud platform vision.

Qualifications

12+ years of relevant experience.
Experience documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
Strong background in highly available software systems and reliability objectives.
Knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
Understanding SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and public cloud offerings.
Ability to evaluate and justify technology choices.
Experience modernizing/refactoring designs for scalability and observability.

Responsibilities

Identify improvements for cloud platform roadmap.
Collaborate with engineers to define architectures toward a unified cloud vision.
Build consensus on long-term technical strategy across product lines and teams.
Engage with external partners and internal stakeholders to achieve platform goals.
Ensure architecture aligns with other product goals.
Provide leadership and hands-on design as needed to drive the roadmap.