Enterprise Architect

Location: China; Remote

Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?

Do you enjoy solving complex customer challenges through architecture and hands-on engineering?

Join our Global Services Cloud Solutions team!

Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The teams mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next-generation applications.

Shape the future of the internet!

You will play a key role throughout the customer solution lifecycle, translating business and technical requirements into solutions using Akamai Cloud. For strategic and complex engagements, you will operate in a forward-deployed capacity. Embedding directly with customer teamsoften requiring onsite travelto deeply understand their environment, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with internal teams to support cloud opportunities, ensuring lasting customer success through Akamai Cloud adoption, technical execution, and client engagement.
• Embedding with strategic customers (remotely/ onsite), working closely with customers teams to translate into production-ready architectures, prototypes, integrations, and solutions.
• Analyzing and breaking down application components while utilizing modern cloud technologies to create scalable, efficient service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services.
• Architecting and deploying high-performance AI/ML infrastructure, optimizing GPU workloads, and integrating scalable inference platforms for enterprise customers.
• Providing hands-on engineering throughout high-touch customer engagementsspanning discovery, proof-of-concept, implementation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production readiness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with teams across Akamais cloud compute, security, and delivery technology stacks, as well as Product and Engineering, to solve complex enterprise workloads.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Able to travel frequently to customer locations & regular onsite embedding is expected as a core requirement of this forward-deployed role.
• Have 6+ years of experience with cloud-based applications, including architecture, implementation, engineering, and strategy within large-scale systems.
• Demonstrate expertise in technical roles at cloud software, public cloud environments with customer-focused responsibilities, i.e. IaaS architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes).
• Thrive in highly collaborative, embedded customer environments, serving as a seamless extension of a customers technical team during strategic engagements.
• Demonstrate exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, effectively conveying technical concepts, architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes to technical and executive audiences.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether youre streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, were the engine behind the scenes. We provide the worlds most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the worlds biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the worlds most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we dont just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And were the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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You will play a key role throughout the customer solution lifecycle, translating business and technical requirements into solutions using Akamai Cloud. For strategic and complex engagements, you will operate in a forward-deployed capacity. Embedding directly with customer teams—often requiring onsite travel—to deeply understand their environment, requirements, constraints, and desired outcomes. Additionally, serve as a thought leader in cloud computing within and beyond Akamai.