Senior Network Delivery Architect

Required Skills & Experience

-8+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent -Possess expertise in internet architecture, optical transport systems, high-density fabric switching, metro routing, and colocation infrastructure standards like liquid-to-chip cooling. -Be able to analyze data, provide actionable solutions and thought leadership to internal and external stakeholders. -Demonstrate experience leading projects with an ability to communicate risks and manage multiple stakeholders and priorities. -Be curious, and able to learn technical concepts and communicate them to a range of audiences.

Job Description

This Senior Network Delivery Architect will be responsible for planning how Akamai expands and maintains its global network and data center infrastructure. The role will turn high-level infrastructure strategies into executable deployment plans across network fabrics, backbone networks, optical systems, and colocation sites. This person will manage capacity planning, evaluate data center readiness across power, space, liquid cooling, and connectivity, coordinate large infrastructure projects and dependencies, and help ensure Akamai’s global platform has the resiliency, redundancy, and capacity needed to scale.