Jobs at Akamai Technologies

Lead site reliability engineering for Akamai Compute services and infrastructure. Provide technical leadership, define operational requirements, improve availability and scalability, build automation, troubleshoot complex systems, manage identity and access platforms, and lead incident response. The role requires infrastructure automation, Linux, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, web proxy, performance optimization, and reliability expertise while participating in on-call rotations.

Supports security compliance initiatives across APJ and EMEA, interprets security standards, assesses control effectiveness, identifies systemic gaps, advises on risk exposure, and guides audits. The role provides management insights, designs control improvements, serves as a compliance subject-matter expert, and aligns cross-functional stakeholders. Candidates need 2–6 years in IT security, risk management, cyber, or IT audit; expertise in major compliance frameworks; strong communication and negotiation skills; and experience with GRC and audit management tools.

Develop and optimize virtualization and systems software for Akamai’s distributed cloud infrastructure. Work with QEMU, Linux kernel features, hypervisor performance, live migration, scheduling, memory management, and open-source integrations. Design software architectures, develop host software for data centers, and provide technical leadership through mentoring, coaching, and hiring. The role requires strong Linux internals knowledge, Python proficiency, and expertise in distributed production environments.

Develop and automate end-to-end data pipelines and integration solutions using Oracle Data Integrator, MuleSoft, GoldenGate, SQL, and scripting. Define implementation requirements, influence data architecture and standards, provide technical expertise, support analytics, and lead process improvements across global teams.

Conduct security control testing, risk identification, internal audits, and technical walkthroughs against SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and related frameworks. Review evidence, coordinate audit samples, document control gaps and exceptions in GRC platforms, develop remediation plans, and support third-party audits. Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, IT, and business stakeholders to evaluate technical, physical, and operational controls and improve compliance processes through automation.

Leads business systems analysis by gathering requirements, facilitating stakeholder workshops, mapping processes, and translating business needs into system solutions. Collaborates with architecture, development, and QA teams across the SDLC; manages traceability, UAT, defect resolution, implementations, and releases. Performs impact and root cause analysis, supports workflow optimization and automation, maintains documentation, mentors analysts, and uses data analysis tools to inform decisions.

Investigates complex cyberattacks, develops and monitors scalable detection code, triages critical incidents, analyzes AI-generated detections, applies threat intelligence, and provides advanced customer-facing security support. The role partners with research and global engineering teams to automate defenses, improve detection coverage, and deliver customer-specific security solutions.

The Services Analyst develops financial forecasts, assists in monthly reporting, manages costs and budgets, and designs user-friendly reporting solutions through data analysis and collaboration with stakeholders.

Develop statistical and machine learning models to optimize Akamai’s global mapping service. Analyze massive telemetry streams, build predictive observability tools and automated data pipelines, define reliability metrics, investigate outages, and guide architecture and technology investment decisions. Collaborate with product engineers and communicate complex quantitative insights to technical and executive stakeholders.

Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate English commercial contracts with global customers and partners. The role advises Sales, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Information Security, and Product Management teams on commercial legal risks, ensures consistent policy compliance, and supports legal department improvements. Candidates must be licensed attorneys with at least three years of sales-supporting legal experience, strong commercial law, intellectual property, privacy, contract drafting, negotiation, communication, and organizational skills.

Develop and maintain automation, infrastructure, and monitoring solutions for large-scale distributed compute systems. Troubleshoot complex systemic issues, deploy software safely at scale, participate in on-call rotations, restore service-impacting incidents, and improve observability and reliability. The role requires expert Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance optimization, infrastructure automation, and proficiency with Python or Golang, cloud platforms, and monitoring technologies.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure, deployment processes, monitoring platforms, and automation for distributed systems. The role improves reliability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency through Linux administration, scripting, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and monitoring tools. The engineer collaborates with internal teams to resolve technical challenges, safely deploy software, and drive continuous improvement.

Supports channel partners throughout the sales process by enabling them to market, sell, implement, and support Akamai solutions. Conducts technical training and enablement workshops, develops partner-specific plans, collaborates with channel sales, leads partner reviews, demonstrates solution value, and helps close sales. Mentors partner sales, presales, and architecture teams while advocating partner needs internally.

Build and improve reliable, scalable distributed content delivery systems. Define SLIs and SLOs, enhance monitoring and alerting, analyze performance data, resolve complex incidents, automate operational tasks, and participate in architecture reviews. The role requires scripting, Oracle SQL analysis, Unix/Linux expertise, and experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ADBMS, and Datadog. Collaboration with product and cross-functional teams is central to ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience.

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.

Sell Akamai solutions to major accounts in North India by building territory plans, developing partner ecosystems, engaging C-levels, driving new customer acquisition, managing pipeline and contract negotiations to maximize bookings and logos.

Lead application security efforts by governing vulnerability management, automating security workflows, embedding SSDLC practices, partnering with engineering/GRC to meet compliance, and serving as a security SME during incident response and customer escalations.

Pre-sales Technical Solutions Architect for Linode/Akamai leading cloud solution design, driving customer acquisition and account growth, collaborating with sales, evangelizing APJ use cases, influencing product roadmap, and building technical thought leadership. Guides customers through cloud transformation and ensures continuous Linode consumption.