Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Strategy Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Providence (RI)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 360,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect to lead the evolution of our cloud platform and infrastructure. You will drive architectural decisions, collaborate with multiple engineering teams, and steer a unified cloud platform vision across products.

You will provide high-level guidance and hands-on design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security for Akamai's global Cloud and Edge platform. This role emphasizes strategic influence and technical excellence.

Qualifications

12+ years of relevant experience in designing and documenting architectures for large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with high availability software systems and security, reliability, and operability objectives.
Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and security concepts (TLS, PKI, VPN).
Expertise in cloud workload management and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation).
Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with public cloud offerings and ability to evaluate technology choices.

Responsibilities

Identify critical improvements for inclusion in the cloud platform roadmap.
Collaborate with solution-specific architects across engineering to define architectures toward a unified cloud platform vision.
Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy decisions across product lines and teams.
Engage with external partners and stakeholders to achieve platform evolution goals.
Work with engineering counterparts to ensure cloud platform architecture aligns with other product goals.
Provide leadership through high-level guidance and hands-on design as needed.