Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?
Do you enjoy solving complex customer challenges through architecture and hands-on engineering?
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 throughout the customer solution lifecycle, translating business and technical requirements into solutions using Akamai Cloud. For strategic and complex engagements, you will operate in a forward-deployed capacity. Embedding directly with customer teamsoften requiring onsite travelto deeply understand their environment, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.
As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with internal teams to support cloud opportunities, ensuring lasting customer success through Akamai Cloud adoption, technical execution, and client engagement.
- Embedding with strategic customers (remotely/ onsite), working closely with customers' teams to translate into production-ready architectures, prototypes, integrations, and solutions.
- Analyzing and breaking down application components while utilizing modern cloud technologies to create scalable, efficient service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services.
- Architecting and deploying high-performance AI/ML infrastructure, optimizing GPU workloads, and integrating scalable inference platforms for enterprise customers.
- Providing hands-on engineering throughout high-touch customer engagementsspanning discovery, proof-of-concept, implementation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production readiness.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Akamai's cloud compute, security, and delivery technology stacks, as well as Product and Engineering, to solve complex enterprise workloads.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Able to travel frequently to customer locations & regular onsite embedding is expected as a core requirement of this forward-deployed role.
- Have 6+ years of experience with cloud-based applications, including architecture, implementation, engineering, and strategy within large-scale systems.
- Demonstrate expertise in technical roles at cloud software, public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities, i.e. IaaS architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes).
- Thrive in highly collaborative, embedded customer environments, serving as a seamless extension of a customer's technical team during strategic engagements.
- Demonstrate exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, effectively conveying technical concepts, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes to technical and executive 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+ years of experience with cloud-based applications, including architecture, implementation, engineering, and strategy for large-scale systems
- Expertise in public cloud or cloud software environments, including IaaS architectures
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or Kubernetes
- Ability to work in collaborative, embedded customer environments
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills for technical and executive audiences
- Frequent travel to customer locations and regular onsite embedding
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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