Senior Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Evaluate critical risks associated with severe outages and prioritize them based on assessments of probability and impact.

• Collaborate with the Chief Architect to establish success criteria for reducing critical risks.

• Work together with product management, architects, and engineers to devise solutions aimed at mitigating or eliminating severe outage risks.

• Consult with engineering and product teams to facilitate the adoption of solutions for mitigating severe outages.

• Investigate Akamai's and the industry's best practices to refresh outage risk governance standards.

• Ensure the continued effectiveness of the risk management program.

• Protect the operational platform architecture of Akamai's essential products from severe outage risks.

• Direct teams towards the remediation of severe outage risks in line with industry best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualifications.

• Significant experience with operational oversight for business-critical production systems.

• Proficient understanding of networking and fundamental Internet protocols, including TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS/SSL, and HTTP.

• Experience with Linux operating systems.

• Comprehensive experience in end-to-end software development or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Background in implementing and/or managing distributed systems and/or cloud computing environments.

• Capability to independently and swiftly research, design, and develop documentation, specifications, RFCs, and code.

• Familiarity with computer configurations, encompassing operating systems, containers, encrypted communications, and protocols.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, well-being, financial, and life-beyond-work benefits.

• Flexible work arrangements available through Akamai's FlexBase program: options to work at home, in an office, or a combination of both.