Senior Cloud Platform Architect — Remote/Hybrid

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will design foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and coordinate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable platforms.

The role requires extensive experience in architectures for large distributed systems, high-availability software, security and observability.

Qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Experience designing architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of high-availability software and security/operability.
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and security concepts.
• Experience with cloud workload management and control plane paradigms.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with architects across engineering to define unified architectures.
• Socialize long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve goals.
• Ensure alignment of cloud platform architecture with product goals.
• Provide leadership through guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Security reliability

Leadership

Networking protocols

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and platform services. You will design foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and coordinate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable platforms.

The role requires extensive experience in architectures for large distributed systems, high-availability software, security and observability.