Akamai Enterprise Cloud Architect - 

United States 

376429087

Shape the future of the internet

As an Enterprise Cloud Architect you'll play an integral part in the customer solutioning lifecycle. Being a technology specialist, you'll support customer success teams in defining Akamai Connected Cloud solutions. You'll guide customers through the strategic and technical aspects of their cloud transformation, emphasizing the implementation.

As an Enterprise Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting cloud compute opportunities as a technology specialist and technical escalation point. Direct customer engagement is required.
• Driving customer success and continuous consumption of Linode, as extension of the integrated account teams.
• Decomposing application components and determining how to leverage various open source technologies to achieve logical outcomes.
• Leading solution and product innovation initiatives. Evangelize use cases/technology trends and influence product roadmap.
• Facilitating customers builds of service-oriented architecture, web services, and Application Programming Interfaces.
• Taking disparate business problems and delivering the best technology solutions for large scale applications.
• Building technical thought-leadership in Cloud Computing to support overall Akamai business growth.
• Partnering with enablement groups in Akamai Cloud Compute, Security and Delivery to solve enterprise workload challenges.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8yrs experience and a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, another related field or its equivalent
• Have experience with large-scale, cloud-based applications, including cloud architecture, implementation lead, and strategy
• Have experience analyzing IT investments and services, ensuring they align with the business needs and strategy
• Have relevant experience working in a customer facing technical role with a public cloud/cloud software company.
• Demonstrate experience in architecting complex IaaS solutions for customers.
• Demonstrate hands-on skills with cloud computing, containers/orchestration, auto-scaling, advanced deployment models, CI/CD with GitOps, and pipeline customization.
• Experience collaborating with channel partners, systems integrators, and third-party developers to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Demonstrate hands-on skills in common open source softwares (Kubernetes, Knative, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ELK stack, Redis, Hive, Spark).

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.