Senior Architect

Would you enjoy working with the world's most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery?

Are you interested in collaborating across engineering groups to ensure the reliability of products?

Come join our Cloud Technology Group!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our global CDN and compute platform. We develop and deploy critical technologies that provide the technical underpinnings for all of Akamai's products. The CTO's team ensures consistent reliability and availability for our customers.

Partner with the best

You will work across Akamai's engineering teams, safeguarding the operational platform architecture of Akamai's key products against severe outage risks. You will use your expertise to guide teams toward remediation of severe outage risks in accordance with industry best practices.

As a Senior Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Driving detailed analysis of critical severe outage risks to ensure appropriate prioritization based on probability and severity assessments
• Working with the Chief Architect to define success criteria for mitigating critical risks
• Collaborating with product management, architects, and engineers to define solutions for mitigating or eliminating severe outage risks
• Consulting with engineering and product teams to enable adoption of severe outage mitigation solutions
• Researching Akamai and industry best practices to update outage risk governance standards and maintain the effectiveness of the risk management program

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor or its equivalent
• Demonstrate extensive experience in a role with operational responsibility for business-critical production systems
• Be able to demonstrate working knowledge of networking and foundational protocols of the Internet, including TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP
• Have Linux OS and End to End Software Development or SRE experience
• Possess working experience with the implementation and/or operation of distributed systems and/or cloud computing
• Be able to independently and quickly research, design and architecture documents, specifications, RFCs and code
• Show knowledge in computer configurations (OS, containers, encrypted communications and protocols)

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.

Our focus is simple:
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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

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.