Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative Infrastructure security products?
Do you relish the prospect of building cutting-edge cloud security systems?
Join our Infrastructure Technology Architecture team!
Our team is responsible for defining the architecture of our security products and systems.
Partner with the best
As an Architect, you will help drive innovative solutions for our rapidly growing suite of platform components and services which power Akamai's Infrastructure security offerings.
As an Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Creating end-to-end architectural designs, focusing on meeting defined objectives around availability, reliability, performance, security, and scalability.
- Collaborating with development teams to implement designs.
- Socializing and building consensus around architectural decisions to provide stable and secure platforms.
- Designing solutions for software and configuration deployments, database, control plane, and security.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8 years of experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or its equivalent.
- Demonstrate good understanding of architectural principles, such as scaling, reliability, performance, security, and their implementations.
- Have understanding of Internet layer 3 and 4 technologies DDOS attacks, including attack vectors and mitigations.
- Can analyze and prototype new auto mitigation algorithms.
- Have programming (e.g,. Perl, Python, JS, Java, GO, eBPF) skills to help prototype new product ideas and concepts.
- Possess knowledge of utilizing DB (Clickhouse) technologies to test new algorithms on stored historic packet data.
Build your career at Akamai
Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.
With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.
