Senior Network Delivery Architect (Data center & Network Infrastructure Planning)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 113,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Delivery Architect to translate high-level platform strategies into executable infrastructure deployment plans across global regions.

The role focuses on capacity planning for fabrics, backbones, optical systems, and colocation footprints, delivering resiliency and scalable growth. You will lead cross-functional projects, manage dependencies, and coordinate with product and regional teams to align timelines with business objectives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience with internet architecture and optical transport systems

Responsibilities

• Managing strategic capacity planning and lifecycle processes for global physical infrastructure layers, including network fabrics, core backbones, and optical systems.
• Leading global colocation planning, evaluating site readiness (power, space, liquid cooling, connectivity) for new space or expansion, and managing colocation exit workflows.
• Overseeing core platform project planning across product type and locations, prioritizing execution, coordinating dependencies, and managing timelines to meet high velocity objectives.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve problems and improve efficiency in the network.

Skills

internet architecture

optical transport

fabric switching

metro routing

colocation infra

data analysis

stakeholder management

project planning

cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Would you like to plan and build the Internet's leading platform?

Would you like to be part of delivering Akamai's platform and products to the world?

Join our Network Planning team!

The Network Platform Planning team manages capacity strategy and lifecycle planning for Akamai's core network infrastructure. This includes global Fabrics supporting our newest AI infrastructure, core backbone networks, optical systems, and colocation footprints.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Network Delivery Architect in Network Platform Planning, you will hold unified accountability for translating high-level platform strategies into executable infrastructure deployment plans. Operating with global scope while leveraging deep technical and regional territory knowledge, you will manage cross-team dependencies and cross-functional partnerships to deliver metro-level resiliency, redundancy, and scalable growth for Akamai's global platform.

As a Senior Network Delivery Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Managing strategic capacity planning and lifecycle processes for global physical infrastructure layers, encompassing network fabrics, core backbone networks, and optical systems.

• Leading global colocation planning, evaluating site readiness (power, space, liquid cooling, connectivity) for new space or expansion, and managing comprehensive colocation exit workflows.

• Overseeing core platform project planning across product type and locations, prioritizing execution, coordinating dependencies, and managing timelines to meet high velocity business objectives.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve problems and improve efficiency in the network.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.

• Possess expertise in internet architecture, optical transport systems, high-density fabric switching, metro routing, and colocation infrastructure standards like liquid-to-chip cooling.

• Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders.

• Demonstrate experience leading projects with an ability to communicate risks and manage multiple stakeholders and priorities.

• Be curious, and able to learn technical concepts and communicate them to a range of audiences.

• Be able to communicate clearly with people across the business.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Cloud and Edge:

Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security

Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery

Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI

Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

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Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $112,500 - $202,500/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.