Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment issues, troubleshoot root causes, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, and automate service deployments. Collaborate with engineering teams on testing changes and integration environments involving Kubernetes, Service Mesh, APIs, and control-plane technologies. Apply Linux, networking, scripting, performance, and SLO monitoring expertise to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure deployments.

Automate software testing, deployment, and validation for scalable cloud-native platform services. Responsibilities include developing unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; troubleshooting deployment issues; creating test plans; validating rollback strategies; collaborating on integration testing; and scripting platform-service deployments across diverse environments and architectures.

Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks for cloud-native platform services. Investigate deployment failures, troubleshoot cross-environment and architecture-specific issues, create test plans, validate rollback strategies, collaborate across engineering teams, and automate platform deployments. The role requires strong Python, Pytest, Linux, Bash, virtualization, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycle expertise.

Leads and mentors a global Site Reliability Engineering team supporting cloud-based Identity and Access Management services. Responsibilities include managing team performance, shaping product roadmaps, driving technical innovation, operating in an Agile environment, developing best practices, and diagnosing system reliability and performance. The role requires extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, containers, scripting, and software development lifecycles.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, improve CI/CD infrastructure, review automation code, and partner with globally distributed engineering teams. Ensure Akamai cloud systems meet specifications for resilience, security, scalability, and release readiness. Troubleshoot Kubernetes applications and contribute to deployment planning.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for cloud APIs and identity management services. Build Python automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD infrastructure, review automation code, and validate system resilience, security, scalability, and specifications. Collaborate with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers while supporting release readiness and deployment decisions.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for Akamai cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD infrastructure, review test automation, validate system scalability and security, and support release readiness. Collaborate with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers while testing Kubernetes-based cloud applications.

Leads and develops a team of IAM engineers, providing technical direction for backend architecture, distributed systems, engineering standards, and full project delivery. Partners with product, QA, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver customer-facing IAM platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring, hiring, onboarding, performance management, requirements clarification, execution oversight, and career development. Requires extensive engineering experience, Python knowledge, IAM expertise, distributed systems experience, Agile and SDLC understanding, and prior leadership experience.

Develop and enhance highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant IAM services on Akamai’s Compute Platform. Design resilient software, build tools for seamless deployment and operation, improve IAM features and customer experience, and research emerging technologies. The role requires extensive Linux software development, Python or Java expertise, secure software delivery, IAM knowledge, and experience with enterprise tools including Git, JIRA, and Jenkins.

Develop and manage mission-critical infrastructure services for Akamai’s cloud lab platform. Build deployment stacks for test datacenters, design observability and monitoring solutions, improve deployment and configuration performance, and collaborate with engineering, architecture, and site reliability teams. The role requires strong Infrastructure as Code, Python, REST API, container orchestration, development-environment tooling, and relational database experience.

Develop and manage mission-critical infrastructure services for cloud development and testing. Build Python backend services, APIs, automation, virtual machine environments, reservation systems, reporting tools, and resilient test frameworks. Improve reliability, scalability, deployment performance, and observability across physical and virtual infrastructure. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with global Development and SRE teams.

Serve as a dedicated technical advisor for enterprise customers using Akamai cloud compute solutions. Drive adoption, retention, and cloud consumption growth by developing success plans, advising on workload placement, performance optimization, and AI inferencing use cases. Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve issues, run business reviews, and manage customer success metrics (retention, NPS, cloud consumption).

Serve as the customer-facing security lead for Akamai product integrations, drive account team delivery and customer success, identify service improvements, manage technical projects and priorities, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality integration and support.

Lead test strategy and build scalable automated test frameworks for a custom Linux kernel. Validate performance, reliability, and security; develop test suites for kernel enhancements and VM software; debug low-level system issues; enhance CI/build automation; provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.