Platform Engineer

Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable cloud platforms and supporting cutting-edge cybersecurity products?

Join our Akamai Guardicore Data and AI Platform Team!

You will work within a dedicated DevOps squad managing a cloud-native platform that drives analytics, insights, and AI-driven features for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. By building highly reliable and cost-effective storage and infrastructure solutions, you will help process extensive security data, empowering our customers to understand their environments, minimize risks, and prevent threat proliferation.

Partner with the best

As a key member of our team, you will partner with Site Reliability Engineers, Data Scientists, and Security Engineers to build modern solutions to global security challenges.

You will be responsible for:

• Platform Design: Designing, operating, and scaling highly available, secure Kubernetes platforms
• GitOps & CI/CD: Building and improving GitOps-based deployment processes using Argo CD, Helm, and related technologies
• Infrastructure as Code: Developing reusable cloud infrastructure and automation frameworks utilizing Terraform
• Developer Experience: Enhancing CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and self-service platform capabilities
• System Optimization: Improving overall platform reliability, observability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
• Production Leadership: Leading complex production investigations and driving long-term architectural improvements

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure with proven ability to optimize and manage systems effectively.
• Demonstrate extensive production expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and Helm.
• Have experience with GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Have experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Have scripting or programming experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
• Demonstrate technical leadership, ownership, and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether 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.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At 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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai'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.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.