Principal Architect – Virtualization and Cloud-Native Technologies

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Lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services at Akamai. Collaborate with engineering teams and contribute to cloud IaaS products.

Responsibilities:

  • Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.
  • 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.
  • Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.
  • Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

Requirements:

  • 15 years of relevant experience
  • Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
  • Extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)
  • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.
  • Experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)
  • Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash
  • Good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Benefits:

  • healthcare
  • 401K savings plan
  • company holidays
  • vacation (in the form of PTO)
  • sick time
  • family-friendly benefits including parental leave
  • employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness