Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Remote/Hybrid)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Carson City (NV); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

PTO / vacation

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is responsible for designing, building, and operating our global Cloud and CDN platforms, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. You will help lead the evolution of the cloud platform, shaping the strategic direction across engineering teams and driving foundational solutions for Akamai's future cloud products.

As a Principal Architect, you will guide high-level architecture decisions, socialize long-term strategy, and collaborate with partners

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 security/operability objectives.
• Working 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 experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
• Experience modernizing/refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade scalability and observability.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed architectures

Cloud platforms

High availability

Networking basics

Public cloud knowledge

Technical strategy

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is responsible for designing, building, and operating our global Cloud and CDN platforms, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. You will help lead the evolution of the cloud platform, shaping the strategic direction across engineering teams and driving foundational solutions for Akamai's future cloud products.

As a Principal Architect, you will guide high-level architecture decisions, socialize long-term strategy, and collaborate with partners