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# Senior Cloud Architect - Data Services

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $169,300.0 - $304,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Architecture, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Redis, Akamai, System Availability, Information Technology, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/EB95CBBD95644E03BB8B02AD4BA587F7/job/

## About the Role

* Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, another related field or its equivalent
 * Possess expertise in developing reusable infrastructure using Terraform modules, templates, and deployment patterns
 * Demonstrate ability to develop scripts and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
 * Have deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, and MongoDB
 * Demonstrate hands-on experience with in-memory and key-value technologies like Redis and Valkey
 * Have understanding of distributed data systems designed for horizontal scalability and high availability

## Description

Our Cloud Data Services team designs, builds, and operates high-reliability, high-scale data services and pipelines powering core Akamai platform capabilities. The team owns systems ingesting, processing, and serving high-volume, high-velocity data. We maintain strict requirements around availability, consistency, and performance.

Partner with the best

You will join a global team delivering high-quality cloud architectures. You will balance designing systems, coaching engineers, clarifying requirements, and driving execution. You will ensure alignment with product and SRE partners. Your role focuses on technical direction and hands-on development.

As a Senior Architect, you will be responsible for:

 * Designing scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available cloud and data architectures
 * Evaluating cloud technologies and determining suitability for new platform capabilities and services
 * Serving as a subject matter expert for database architectures including PostgreSQL and Oracle
 * Designing highly available, replicated, clustered, and geographically distributed database architectures
 * Building prototypes, proof of concepts, and reference implementations to validate scalability and security
 * Converting successful prototypes into repeatable architecture patterns and production-ready designs