Senior Architect - jobs at Akamai in United Kingdom

People who do best are the ones who seek challenges, possess a passion for learning, and have demonstrated ability to pose and solve truly difficult problems. The job requires a combination of system design, programming and debugging skills, an obsession with code quality, and independence. You must have a passion to get things done quickly and get them done right.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Analyzing system performance, identify problems, design, develop, and implement solutions
• Extending metrics collection, create visualizations, and statisitcal data analysis to better quantify systems performance.
• Building tooling to help identify system performance problems faster.
• Training other Akamai engineers to identify performance issues.
• Working with teams across the company to implement your solutions.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have advanced programming experience in C.
• Have proficiency with Python, Bash, or Perl.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of Linux operating system internals and kernel interactions.
• Have deep experience with complex data structures, algorithms, and optimization techniques
• Have a thorough understanding of network protocols including IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP
• Have a proficiency with Git version control system.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Shape the future of the internet

You will serve as a trusted advisor and technical liaison for key enterprise customers. You'll be responsible for ensuring the successful deployment, operation, and optimization of Akamai solutions in customer environments.

As a Technical Account Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Providing deep technical expertise in cloud computing and infrastructure.
• Advising on cloud architecture, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Supporting compute environments and workloads to ensure reliability and efficiency.
• Acting as a liaison between cloud support teams and customers to drive adoption and resolve issues.for API Sec and Cloud Computing

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate knowledge and experience with cloud service delivery models while engaging with partners, enhancing strategies and practices.
• Have experience in developing and managing service delivery frameworks and guidelines.
• Be able to represent excellent negotiation and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Maintain keen analytical and problem-solving abilities focused on service delivery.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

We are looking for a Senior Architect with expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies to lead the architecture and design our Cloud Services, new Managed Services product offerings, and the platform these products run on. In this role, you will be working with other architects and engineering development teams.

As an Architect Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the system design and implementation, guiding engineering with pragmatic solutions, and unblocking technical barriers to projects
• 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
• Helping shape the engineering roadmap with stakeholders from product and engineering management and business stakeholders
• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate experience designing and building highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable production services using Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies
• Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, Cluster API, and multi-cluster
• Have experience and solid foundational understanding of linux, networking, containers and the technologies that revolve around them
• Demonstrate significant experience with implementing code with Go, C++ or Python
• Develop projects with technologies such as opentelemetry, CSI, CNI, CI/CD tooling, Load Balancing, Service Mesh frameworks

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Software Engineer you will focus on building highly usable, reliable and scalable storage solutions. Our platform empowers enterprises to create modern solutions to the world's problems.

As a Senior Software Engineer you be responsible for:

• Creating new features, or enhance existing functionality, from design through testing and deployment.
• Working in an agile sprint environment to deliver quality software on a regular and consistent basis.
• Measuring and optimizing distributed system performance.
• Collaborating with our architecture, QA and operational teams to create a world class storage service.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a depth of experience with Golang or C++.
• Have prior experience working with Kubernetes.
• Have extensive experience developing software in a distributed, micro-services environment.
• Have a track record of delivering reliable and secure software.
• Have good knowledge of object storage and block storage technologies within cloud environments.
• Have experience working in an agile devops environment.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.