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Designs, develops, tests, implements, maintains, and supports custom software applications across internet security, content delivery, APIs, machine learning, and cloud computing. The role improves platform functionality, develops new capabilities, automates product operations, contributes to architecture and software design, and expands automated unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.

Deploy and operate scalable, highly available cloud systems; improve network security, stability, speed, and capacity; automate cloud deployments; monitor services and capacity; analyze logs and events; troubleshoot infrastructure issues; maintain SLAs; perform root cause analysis and implement security fixes using CI/CD, IaC, Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Python, Bash, GitLab, and Linux.

Develop and deploy automated system tests for distributed software systems. Build test beds, unit tests, automation tools, and infrastructure; collaborate with developers and QA teams; create test plans and ensure coverage; review system requirements and test cases; and improve testing methodologies and efficiency using software development and coding.

Designs and leads large-scale software subsystems, architecture, coding standards, code reviews, debugging tools, performance optimization, refactoring, and QA automation. Guides business and technical solution definition, evaluates production readiness using objective metrics, and develops web content management, workflow automation, integrations, and database solutions. The role is telecommuting eligible throughout the United States.

Lead development and operation of a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Shape the engineering roadmap, deliver enterprise platform capabilities, establish best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Agile teams. Build highly available and fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, while applying expertise in Go, Python or Bash, networking, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and CI/CD/IaC systems. Implement observability (monitoring, logging, alerting), automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain Akamai Cloud services.

Perform security-focused design reviews across applications, systems, networks, cloud, CDN, and security products. Partner with development and infrastructure teams to remediate vulnerabilities, guide secure design decisions, advise on security practices, support incident response, and ensure security and compliance requirements. Apply threat modeling, current vulnerability knowledge, and responsible AI practices while communicating effectively with global technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Design and implement platform security solutions across deployments, databases, and control planes. Deliver secure, scalable code, support full product lifecycle, collaborate with Product/Architecture/DevOps/InfoSec, and resolve complex platform and product security challenges.

Lead site reliability engineering for Akamai’s compute infrastructure and services. Develop automation, define reliability requirements and standards, establish SLOs and KPIs, troubleshoot complex distributed-system and hardware issues, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in on-call rotations. Coordinate engineering teams, support strategic initiatives, mentor engineers, and guide restoration of service-impacting issues.

Lead technical architecture and thought leadership for AI and enterprise workloads on Akamai’s cloud, edge, delivery, and security platforms. Advise customers and stakeholders, identify AI adoption opportunities, design scalable solutions, guide framework and technology selection, and collaborate with engineers, data scientists, Product Management, and R&D. Shape product roadmaps, provide technical guidance, analyze requirements and data, and develop strategic customer relationships.