Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable cloud platforms and supporting cutting-edge cybersecurity products?
Join our Akamai Guardicore Data and AI Platform Team!
You will work within a dedicated elite team managing and building a cloud-native DevOps platform that drives analytics, insights, and AI-driven features for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. By building highly reliable and cost-effective infrastructure solutions, you will help process extensive security data, empowering our customers to understand their environments, minimize risks, and prevent threat proliferation.
Partner with the best
As a key member of our team, you will partner with Site Reliability Engineers, Data Scientists, and Security Engineers to build modern solutions to global security challenges.
You will be responsible for:
- Platform Design: Designing, operating, and scaling highly available, secure Kubernetes platforms
- GitOps: Building and improving GitOps-based deployment processes using Argo CD, Helm, and related technologies
- Infrastructure as Code: Developing reusable cloud infrastructure and automation frameworks utilizing Terraform
- Developer Experience: Enhancing CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and self-service platform capabilities
- System Optimization: Improving overall platform reliability, observability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
- Production Leadership: Leading complex production investigations and driving long-term architectural improvements
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure with proven ability to optimize and manage systems effectively.
- Demonstrate extensive production expertise with Kubernetes
- Have experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Have experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Have scripting or programming experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
- Demonstrate technical leadership, ownership, and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives
Build your career at Akamai
Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.
With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.
Learn more
Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.
Skills Required
- Expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure
- Extensive production experience with Kubernetes, containers, and Helm
- Experience with GitOps and GitOps-based deployment processes (Argo CD)
- Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience developing reusable cloud infrastructure and automation using Terraform
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Scripting or programming experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
- Technical leadership, ownership, and ability to drive cross-team initiatives
- Experience leading complex production investigations and driving long-term improvements
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.
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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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