Job Description
Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents
Join our Global Services Cloud Solutions team!
Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications.
Shape the future of the internet!
You will play a key role in the customer solution lifecycle, supporting success teams in defining Cloud/Linode solutions. Guide customers through strategic and technical aspects of Cloud transformations with a focus on implementation. Deliver valuable application outcomes using Akamai Cloud Compute products and services. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.
As An Enterprise Architect, You Will Be Responsible For
- Collaborating with account teams to support cloud opportunities, ensuring lasting customer success through Linode service adoption and client engagement.
- Analyzing and breaking down application components while utilizing modern cloud technologies to create scalable, efficient solutions.
- Facilitating the design and implementation of Akamai Compute Solutions, service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services to solve complex enterprise challenges.
- Establishing technical thought leadership in cloud computing and Linode services to promote Akamai's business growth strategies.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Akamai's cloud compute, security, and delivery technology stacks to develop solutions for enterprise workloads.
Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience with cloud-based applications for 6 to 10 years in architecture, implementation, and strategy within large-scale systems.
- Align IT investments and services with organizational goals and broader business strategies while evaluating their effectiveness.
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrate expertise in technical roles at cloud software organizations or public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities.
- Have expertise in architecting complex IaaS solutions with relevant certifications from AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Gain experience in cloud domains, including IaaS, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and open-source tools like Kafka, Redis, ELK stack.
- Collaborate effectively with channel partners, systems integrators, third-party developers, and internal teams within extensive enterprise environments.
- Demonstrate exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, effectively conveying technical content to varied audiences.
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.
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