Define and lead the technical architecture for Akamai's cloud platform and services.
Partner across engineering, product, and leadership to shape the technical direction of IaaS products spanning virtualization, Kubernetes, cloud storage, networking, and large-scale distributed systems.
Define the platform-level architecture standards, patterns, and principles for Akamai Cloud services.
Evaluate and guide decisions across virtualization, containers, storage, networking, and orchestration. Build alignment and consensus across engineering organizations.
Help engineering teams adopt pragmatic, high-impact solutions and unblock complex technical challenges.
Contribute to build / partner / buy decisions with product and corporate development stakeholders.
Represent Akamai Cloud in the broader engineering community through speaking, writing, standards participation, or open-source engagement.
Mentor senior engineers and architects, helping develop the next generation of technical leaders.

Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or it's equivalent.
Have technical understanding across several of the following: Linux, Virtualization, Kubernetes, Cloud networking and service connectivity and Cloud storage systems
Possess experience architecting and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, globally distributed systems.
Be able to think holistically about systems performance, reliability, security, operability, and cost.
Possess good communication skills from writing clear design proposals to engaging executive leadership.
Demonstrate industry impact through open-source contributions, technical publications, standards work, or conference speaking at communities such as CNCF.

Chief Architect – IaaS Platform & Products

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