Do strategic analytics excite you?
Do you like collaborating across teams to deliver operational excellence?
Join our team
Our Business Operations, Data & Analytics team partners with the Cloud Technology Group (CTG) to meet customer needs. We empower the business to make smarter, data-driven decisions. We standardize, automate, and govern data, analytics, and reporting to deliver consistent, scalable solutions.
Partner with the best
You will build and maintain analytics solutions supporting teams across CTG. You will work on data modeling, dashboards, and reporting to turn data into insights that guide decision-making. You will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support data processes across Networks teams, like Regional Planning, Global Capacity Planning, Colocation, and Finance organizations (among others!).
As a Strategy & Operations Analyst II, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with Network Infrastructure and Colocation teams to gather requirements and understand key business metrics
- Automating reporting and enabling self-serve functionalities to provide visibility into key metrics
- Assisting in building and maintaining data pipelines and models to support analytics use cases
- Writing queries and combining data from various sources
- Communicating insights to stakeholders through visualizations and reports
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5 years of relevant experience in business intelligence, data engineering, or data analytics and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
- Possess solid working knowledge of SQL with experience querying and analyzing large datasets
- Be proficient in Excel and/or Google Sheets for basic analysis and QA tasks and have experience with data and system integrations
- Be knowledgeable about creating dashboards in data visualization tools, like Tableau
- Have experience using AI Developer tools, like Copilot or Claude, in your day-to-day operations
- Demonstrate solid communication skills to translate requirements and share findings with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Have some experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or willingness to learn
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.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $88,900 - $160,100/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.
Skills Required
- Five years of relevant experience in business intelligence, data engineering, or data analytics
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Working knowledge of SQL, including querying and analyzing large datasets
- Proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets
- Experience with data and system integrations
- Experience creating dashboards in data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Experience using AI developer tools such as Copilot or Claude
- Strong communication skills for translating requirements and sharing findings with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, or willingness to learn
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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