Senior Cloud Platform Architect & Strategy Leader

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

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for the Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of our cloud platform and services. You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, designing foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and platform roadmap.

You will collaborate with peers to ensure high availability, security, and operability while guiding long-term technical strategy and engaging with stakeholders across the company.

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 objectives for security, reliability and operability.
• Working knowledge of Internet protocols (routing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and computer security (TLS, PKI, VPN).
• Expertise in cloud workload management (containers, VMs) and control plane paradigms (push, pull, segmentation, reconciliation).
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.
• Experience evaluating and justifying technology choices.
• Experience modernizing and refactoring system designs for enterprise-grade scalability, reliability and observability.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical improvements for cloud platform roadmap.
• Collaborate with solution architects to define architectures toward a unified vision.
• Socialize and build consensus around long-term technical strategy across product lines.
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders to meet platform goals.
• Coordinate with engineering to align cloud platform architecture with product goals.
• Provide leadership and hands-on design to execute the roadmap.

Skills

Distributed architectures

High availability

Networking & security basics

Cloud workloads management

Public cloud familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Architect for the Cloud Technology Group to lead the evolution of our cloud platform and services. You will drive initiatives across engineering teams, designing foundational solutions that power Akamai's cloud products and platform roadmap.

You will collaborate with peers to ensure high availability, security, and operability while guiding long-term technical strategy and engaging with stakeholders across the company.