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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.\nShape the future of the internet!\nYou will play a key role throughout the customer solution lifecycle, translating business and technical requirements into solutions using Akamai Cloud. For strategic and complex engagements, you will operate in a forward-deployed capacity. Embedding directly with customer teamsoften requiring onsite travelto deeply understand their environment, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.\nAs an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:\nCollaborating with internal teams to support cloud opportunities, ensuring lasting customer success through Akamai Cloud adoption, technical execution, and client engagement.\nEmbedding with strategic customers (remotely/ onsite), working closely with customers' teams to translate into production-ready architectures, prototypes, integrations, and solutions.\nAnalyzing and breaking down application components while utilizing modern cloud technologies to create scalable, efficient service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services.\nArchitecting and deploying high-performance AI/ML infrastructure, optimizing GPU workloads, and integrating scalable inference platforms for enterprise customers.\nProviding hands-on engineering throughout high-touch customer engagementsspanning discovery, proof-of-concept, implementation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production readiness.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Akamai's cloud compute, security, and delivery technology stacks, as well as Product and Engineering, to solve complex enterprise workloads.\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nAble to travel frequently to customer locations & regular onsite embedding is expected as a core requirement of this forward-deployed role.\nHave 6+ years of experience with cloud-based applications, including architecture, implementation, engineering, and strategy within large-scale systems.\nDemonstrate expertise in technical roles at cloud software, public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities, i.e. IaaS architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes).\nThrive in highly collaborative, embedded customer environments, serving as a seamless extension of a customer's technical team during strategic engagements.\nDemonstrate exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, effectively conveying technical concepts, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes to technical and executive audiences.\nAbout us\nAt Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.\nWhether 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.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt 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.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.\nFlexBase adapts to your job's needs\nAkamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!","description_format":"text","description_chars":4650,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","CDN"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T03:40:47Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-enterprise-architect-23","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-enterprise-architect-23.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T15:27:28Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}