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Designs, develops, and operates infrastructure, observability platforms, and internal tooling for Akamai’s Compute products. Responsibilities include proactive troubleshooting, automation, systems programming, Kubernetes and production-system operations, reliability and scalability improvements, cross-team collaboration, and guidance on service performance. The role requires Linux administration, networking knowledge, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, configuration management, cloud storage exposure, and scripting expertise.

Develop and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure applications for Akamai’s App Battery platform. Build Python software, manage Docker containers and Kubernetes deployments, create Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and support secure deployment through vulnerability management and static analysis. The role also involves Linux administration, GitOps delivery with ArgoCD, observability using Fluent Bit and Logstash, and modern web development with TypeScript.

Designs and implements scalable Akamai and Linode cloud solutions for enterprise customers. Partners with account, engineering, security, and delivery teams to support cloud transformations, architect IaaS environments, analyze application components, and develop service-oriented architectures, APIs, and web services. Provides technical thought leadership, aligns cloud investments with business strategy, and drives adoption of cloud compute products across complex enterprise environments.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for API-based security and threat protection products. Develops test strategies, executes tests, improves coverage, evaluates testing tools, and collaborates with engineering teams on code, design, test plans, and automation frameworks in an Agile environment. Supports releases, testing process improvements, customer installations, and product demonstrations.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain automated system tests for large-scale distributed systems. Create real-world test scenarios, improve automation methodologies, review system requirements and test plans, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and evaluating testing infrastructure technologies.

Provides technical support for Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Zero Trust cybersecurity products. Investigates and resolves complex B2B customer issues, owns problem resolution, collaborates with internal teams, analyzes recurring technical problems, and proposes preventive solutions. Requires knowledge of Linux, networking, virtualization, cloud technologies, and basic scripting.

Lead the design and implementation of secure network and enterprise application solutions for Zero Trust products. Establish security standards, assess technologies, address architecture and implementation risks, collaborate on audits and penetration testing, review secure code in C, C++, Python, and Go, and mentor engineers. The role requires expertise in networking, VPNs, cloud platforms, identity and access management, NIST, FedRAMP, and secure appliance development.

Lead and grow Akamai's channel partner ecosystem in India by defining strategy, recruiting and enabling partners, managing partner relationships and revenue execution across security, delivery and compute solutions. Manage a team, drive channel marketing and enablement, resolve channel conflicts, ensure service delivery and billing, and meet new customer and product sales targets.

Oversee, scale, and optimize high-density AI hardware infrastructure across regional data centers. Build Python automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling, integrate incident workflows, develop telemetry pipelines and monitoring dashboards, and improve reliability across private cloud, bare-metal, and virtualized environments. Lead on-call incident response, runbooks, post-mortems, service rollouts, vendor coordination, and field technician activities while driving uptime, performance, and operational readiness.

Drive enterprise sales growth for Akamai Cloud Infrastructure Services by developing new accounts, building strategic account plans, advising executive stakeholders, and identifying cloud, compute, and AI workload opportunities. Lead consultative cross-selling and upselling, manage complex infrastructure deals, forecast pipelines, negotiate contracts, and coordinate enterprise sales teams and technical specialists through close and adoption.