[Hiring] Senior Architect @Akamai

Role Description

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.

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.

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
• 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.
• We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.