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Lead product strategy and roadmaps for platform security and infrastructure, operationalize secure paved paths, manage lifecycle of core systems, partner with hardware vendors, support internal engineering teams, and develop business and financial models to guide technical debt decisions, monitoring, and maintenance processes.

Lead design, implementation, automation, and troubleshooting of Akamai's global network infrastructure. Build and maintain scalable BGP routing, data center CLOS fabrics, overlay technologies (VxLAN/EVPN), multi-vendor environments, and automation templates. Drive hardware/platform rollouts, deep-dive analysis, and clear documentation to ensure reliability, scalability, and security.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for Akamai's core compute offerings, bridging hardware and developer experiences. Gather and document technical requirements, prioritize features, analyze metrics for KPIs and profitability, collaborate cross-functionally, and engage customers and partners to drive compute platform adoption and improvements.

Designs and guides scalable, reliable, secure software architecture for Akamai’s global network operations systems. Responsibilities include developing architectural standards, presenting technical visions, collaborating with product and engineering teams, ensuring comprehensive testing and quality practices, and researching emerging network operations and automation technologies. The role requires extensive distributed systems architecture experience and software development lifecycle knowledge in Unix/Linux environments.

Provide advanced technical support for enterprise customers, diagnose and resolve network security, OS (Linux/Windows) and virtualization issues, deploy software and networking equipment, maintain high customer satisfaction, collaborate with internal teams, and occasionally travel onsite while based in Cambridge, MA or Dallas, TX.

Serve as a technical partner-facing presales lead: build trusted partner relationships, enable partners to resell and service Akamai security products, support channel sales to grow revenue, customize sales plays and use cases, represent partner needs to product/marketing/services, and present technical solutions to diverse audiences.

Lead and execute complex R&D transformation programs across Cloud Technology Group. Manage TPMs, analysts, and trainers to define roadmaps, standardize PDLC/SDLC practices, optimize portfolio management, track engineering productivity metrics, present to executives, drive change management, and scale tooling and operational practices while fostering an inclusive culture.

Provide strategic legal counsel on global network and infrastructure commercial transactions. Draft, review, and negotiate data center leases, colocation, bandwidth/connectivity, peering, hardware/software and cloud procurement agreements. Identify transaction risks, develop contract templates and playbooks, manage supplier relationships, support dispute resolution, and advise senior stakeholders on contracting strategy and risk management for Akamai's global platform.

Lead design, implementation, and automation of Akamai's global network. Build and maintain IP/BGP routing, data center CLOS fabrics, and overlay technologies (VxLAN/EVPN). Create/manage configuration templates with Python, Ansible, and Jinja2. Troubleshoot complex multi-vendor environments and collaborate cross-functionally on data models and requirements.

Ensure reliability, scalability, and usability of network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud. Define requirements and SLOs, build automation and CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with dev/QA to improve code and stability, troubleshoot complex network issues (on-call), and mentor teammates while driving architectural standards.