Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group designs, builds, and operates the global Cloud and CDN platforms, ensuring security, reliability, and availability for customers. You will lead the evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure across multiple engineering teams, delivering foundational solutions that power future cloud products.

As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will identify roadmap improvements, socialize long-term strategy, and coordinate with partners to achieve platform evolution

Qualifications

• 12 years of architecture experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience delivering high availability, secure, observable services.
• Strong knowledge of Internet protocols and security concepts (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workloads management and control plane paradigms.
• Experience with SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and public cloud offerings.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects across engineering to define a unified cloud platform vision.
• Socialize and secure consensus on long-term technical strategy across product lines and teams.
• Engage external partners and internal stakeholders to advance platform evolution goals.
• Ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
• Provide leadership through guidance and hands-on design as needed.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

High availability

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group designs, builds, and operates the global Cloud and CDN platforms, ensuring security, reliability, and availability for customers. You will lead the evolution of Akamai's cloud infrastructure across multiple engineering teams, delivering foundational solutions that power future cloud products.

As a Principal Architect on the CTO's team, you will identify roadmap improvements, socialize long-term strategy, and coordinate with partners to achieve platform evolution