Senior Cloud Platform Architect - Lead Global Platform

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for its Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of the company's cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, design foundational solutions, and help power all Akamai cloud products. You will socialize long-term strategy, engage with partners, and provide high-level guidance plus hands-on design to execute the cloud platform roadmap.

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.
• Experience with high availability software systems and 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 and control plane paradigms.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with public cloud exposure.
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
• Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade scalability.

Responsibilities

• Identifying critical improvements for cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborating with solution architects to define architectures toward a unified cloud vision.
• Socializing and building consensus on long-term technical strategy across product lines.
• Engaging with external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
• Ensuring cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
• Providing leadership through guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Security & reliability

High availability

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for its Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of the company's cloud infrastructure and platform services.

You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, design foundational solutions, and help power all Akamai cloud products. You will socialize long-term strategy, engage with partners, and provide high-level guidance plus hands-on design to execute the cloud platform roadmap.