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# Principal Architect (Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies)

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Lincoln, NE, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Bash Shell, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Linux, Fault Tolerance, Hypervisor, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Python (Programming Language), Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Systems Architecture, Virtual Machines, Virtualization Technology, Containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/4EA48877CFD64825B82317F766D11001/job/

## About the Role

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

## Description

We are looking for a Principal Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, with good Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

As a Principal,Architect, you will be responsible for:

 * 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.


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