Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K savings plan

Vacation/PTO

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud platform. You will design and guide the architecture of global cloud infrastructure, partnering with multiple engineering teams to enable scalable, secure services across products.

The role requires deep experience in large-scale distributed systems, high availability, and proven ability to drive long-term technical strategy while delivering hands-on design when needed.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience in cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience designing architectures for large-scale distributed software.
• Strong knowledge of security, reliability, and operability objectives.
• Familiarity with Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Experience with public cloud offerings (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) and multi-cloud strategies.
• Ability to justify technology choices and lead architectural modernization.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

High availability

Networking / Internet protocols

Cloud workload management

Public cloud knowledge (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS

Architecture evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud platform. You will design and guide the architecture of global cloud infrastructure, partnering with multiple engineering teams to enable scalable, secure services across products.

The role requires deep experience in large-scale distributed systems, high availability, and proven ability to drive long-term technical strategy while delivering hands-on design when needed.