Senior Service Architect- Managed Services

Are you a Linux, kernel, and hypervisor expert looking to jump into architecture while remaining hands-on?

Are you passionate about the system architecture and design of our Compute Platform, building the foundation for our Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Kubernetes-based products and services?

Come join Akamai Cloud!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group (CTG) takes ownership for designing, building, maintaining and operating our public cloud computing platform. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test, and maintain products that run our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure

We are looking for a Senior Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, along with Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture

Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and recommend technologies

Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction

Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders

Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent

Demonstrate extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and large-scale distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Cilium, etc.)

Have advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization

Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash

Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings

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.

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

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.

we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. 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;