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# Senior Architect - Cloud Compute

- **Company:** Akamai Technologies
- **Location:** Lansing, MI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $169,300.0 - $304,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Software Design Patterns, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Akamai, Management of Software Versions, Kubernetes
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.mitalent.org/job-seeker/job-details/JobCode/413872165

## About the Role

* Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
 * Have experience leading the architectural design of SDLC processes, CI/CD pipelines, and software-defined automation
 * Be familiar with Kubernetes, cloud-native container ecosystems, hypervisors, and associated supporting infrastructure technologies
 * Possess solid communication skills to bridge technical gaps across global teams and drive stakeholder consensus
 * Demonstrate experience coordinating large-scale software patching, deployment operations, and system compliance standards
 * Have an understanding of evaluation frameworks used for assessing SDLC maturity and integrating platform infrastructure

## Description

Are you an expert in software delivery lifecycles looking to lead architectural designs for public cloud infrastructure?

Do you want to shape next-generation SDLC processes and automation across global development and reliability engineering teams?

Join our team

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group designs, builds, and operates our public cloud computing platform. We develop applications and services to empower customers globally. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will lead the architecture and design for our Compute SDLC. You will collaborate with engineering teams to build reliable, scalable software delivery processes. You will also define long-term platform strategies and drive automation across our cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior Architect - Cloud Compute, you will be responsible for:

 * Creating and refining system-wide SDLC processes to enhance platform scalability, reliability, and deployment visibility across engineering teams
 * Coordinating the design of critical integration points to enable comprehensive views of software versioning and global deployment operations
 * Providing technical guidance on design patterns while aligning stakeholders on long-term platform strategies and software architecture
 * Architecting solutions for shared SDLC workflows and conducting system reviews across Compute and related cloud infrastructure
 * Evaluating and developing frameworks to perform due diligence on the SDLC maturity and infrastructure of potential acquisition targets
 * Identifying tools and defining metrics to ensure products meet monitoring, patching, and regulatory compliance standards