Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?
Join our Global Services Cloud Solutions team!
Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications.
Shape the future of the internet!
You will play a key role in the customer solution lifecycle, supporting success teams in defining Cloud/Linode solutions. Guide customers through strategic and technical aspects of Cloud transformations with a focus on implementation. Deliver valuable application outcomes using Akamai Cloud Compute products and services. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.
As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with account teams to support cloud opportunities, ensuring lasting customer success through Linode service adoption and client engagement.
- Analyzing and breaking down application components while utilizing modern cloud technologies to create scalable, efficient solutions.
- Facilitating the design and implementation of Akamai Compute Solutions, service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services to solve complex enterprise challenges.
- Establishing technical thought leadership in cloud computing and Linode services to promote Akamai's business growth strategies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Akamai's cloud compute, security, and delivery technology stacks to develop solutions for enterprise workloads.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience with cloud-based applications for 6 to 10 years in architecture, implementation, and strategy within large-scale systems.
- Align IT investments and services with organizational goals and broader business strategies while evaluating their effectiveness.
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrate expertise in technical roles at cloud software organizations or public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities.
- Have expertise in architecting complex IaaS solutions with relevant certifications from AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Gain experience in cloud domains, including IaaS, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and open-source tools like Kafka, Redis, ELK stack.
- Collaborate effectively with channel partners, systems integrators, third-party developers, and internal teams within extensive enterprise environments.
- Demonstrate exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, effectively conveying technical content to varied audiences.
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.
Skills Required
- 6 to 10 years of experience in cloud-based application architecture, implementation, and strategy for large-scale systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in technical roles at cloud software organizations or public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities
- Expertise architecting complex IaaS solutions
- Relevant certification from AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
- Experience with IaaS, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Kafka, Redis, and ELK Stack
- Experience collaborating with channel partners, systems integrators, third-party developers, and enterprise teams
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills for communicating technical content to varied audiences
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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