Architect

Do you enjoy analysing large-scale, complex systems?

Would having an impact on the reliability of the global internet excite you?

Join our exceptional technical team

Our Change Safety Governance team’s mission is to safeguard our critical systems by helping system owners and process SMEs think through risk management of the changes they make to complex interconnected systems, from inception through review, testing, deployment, and monitoring – captured in Change Safety Strategy (CSS) documents. The team reviews, approves, and archives change safety strategies and modifications. It also verifies teams have the CSS they need and are following what they documented. Through review and verification, our team captures and analyses change safety risks, in partnership with Engineering and SRE teams, to provide the broad contextualised picture of the change risk landscape in support of executive leadership decision-making about mitigation work prioritisation. As part of the wider Technology Reliability Governance team, the change safety team contributes to broad critical system reliability reviews against our standards, and chairs the Change Safety Standard committee of SMEs from across the company that sets and periodically reviews and improves our Change Safety Standard Criteria.

Shape the future of our cutting-edge products

You will analyse documented change processes operating on one of the largest distributed systems in the world with the aim of making it even more reliable.

As an Architect in TRG - Change Safety Governance, you will be responsible for:

• Researching, interviewing, and learning about how the vast array of platforms, products, services, and other systems at Akamai work and how they may impact each other

• Reviewing and approving of change safety strategies regarding the many change types and systems at Akamai. This involves working closely with SMEs authoring strategies to understand the technical details of what the systems do and how the changes are made, and to probe on safety-oriented questions about those details, eliciting opportunities for improvements.

• Identification, analysis and reporting of change safety risks; then, working with executives, system owners, and SMEs to verify that prioritised risk mitigation work is completed

• Working closely with system owners and change process SMEs to help them develop and modify change safety strategies through the review process

• Working closely with other Architects, Researchers, and Engineers to develop and maintain a broad set of Reliability Standards, and to analyse and review systems against those standards

Do what you love

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Possess 8+ of relevant experience and education in computer science or another research-focused science field.

• Communicate effectively through written documentation, presentations, and meetings while clearly expressing thoughts and ideas.

• Possess working experience with the implementation and/or operation of distributed systems and/or cloud computing

• Be eager to know how and why things work, and how to improve them

• Be able to apply system thinking. Identify the key factors and reason about the system without needing all the low-level details

• Possess working knowledge of networks and protocols. Well versed in IP networks, DNS, routing and communication protocols such as HTTP, TCP and UDP.

• Research and understand technical materials independently, including design documents, specifications, RFCs, and unfamiliar code.

• Show basic knowledge of computer configurations (examples include: OS, containers, encrypted communications and protocols)

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

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