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# Senior Architect - Compute Virtualization

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Columbia, SC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $169,300.0 - $304,700.0
- **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), Linux Kernel, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Performance Tuning, Systems Architecture, Virtual Machines, Virtualization Technology, Containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3426263647&tx=KR4141FFF&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
 * Demonstrate extensive experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, and large-scale distributed production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Cilium, etc.)
 * Have advanced knowledge of operating systems, linux internals, virtualization technologies, hypervisors, performance optimization
 * Have experience and solid understanding of containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, Kubernetes, 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 Senior Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, along with 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 Senior Architect, you will be responsible for:

 * Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture
 * Building proof of concepts to help make design choices and recommend technologies
 * 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