Senior Cloud Platform Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, design foundational solutions, and guide architectural decisions to align with a unified cloud platform vision.

You will collaborate with partners to ensure high availability, security, and operability while shaping long-term strategy and roadmaps across product lines.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure and platform services by driving key initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Design foundational solutions that power and support Akamai's future cloud products.
• Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design to execute the cloud platform roadmap.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Leadership

Security & reliability

Networking knowledge

Public cloud experience

Technology evaluation

System modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, design foundational solutions, and guide architectural decisions to align with a unified cloud platform vision.

You will collaborate with partners to ensure high availability, security, and operability while shaping long-term strategy and roadmaps across product lines.