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Owns VM and fleet test strategy, hypervisor validation, performance quality gates, and systems-level testing for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like environments, develops automated benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/libvirt, Linux internals, x86 and ARM architectures, performance analysis, statistical testing, and CI/CD tooling.

Design, build, and scale backend data services, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and high-volume data pipelines. Optimize PostgreSQL and Oracle databases, improve reliability and performance across regions, diagnose complex production issues, and mentor engineers. Partner with DBA and SRE teams while providing hands-on technical leadership and owning services end to end.

Designs and maintains scalable build and deployment pipelines, enforces release quality gates, resolves environment and infrastructure issues, and integrates AI agents into CI/CD workflows for automated testing, log analysis, production monitoring, and incident triage.

Develop and enhance Akamai EdgeWorkers applications and services for distributed edge computing. Responsibilities include shaping user-focused UI, CLI, and API experiences; writing Java and TypeScript code; participating in code reviews; troubleshooting production issues; implementing automated tests; debugging distributed Linux systems, microservices, and containerized environments; and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.

Serves as the primary security services contact for customers, guiding the integration and effective use of Akamai web security products. Collaborates with cross-functional and sales teams to understand customer needs, tune solutions, implement security and web technologies, and improve delivery methodologies. Requires expertise in internet protocols, CDN operation, web development, IT systems, security practices, consultative customer engagement, and project management. Must be able to obtain and maintain Canadian government clearance.

Manage end-to-end technical customer engagements for global brands using the Akamai platform. Advise customers on web architecture, integration solutions, performance, security strategy, and best practices. Collaborate with account teams and internal stakeholders to deliver large technical projects, improve integration quality, and strengthen customer relationships. Communicate complex technical information clearly through presentations and customer-facing consulting.

Manages end-to-end technical customer engagements and projects for Akamai’s security, media, and performance platform. Collaborates with account teams to evaluate architectures, deliver solutions, improve integration efficiency, ensure customer success, and establish long-term strategies. Partners cross-functionally, facilitates stakeholder communication, contributes to internal projects, and develops best practices for service delivery and technical integrations.

Provides end-to-end security consultancy, customer integration, and technical support for Akamai solutions. Serves as the primary customer contact, leads integrated account teams, improves service delivery, identifies risks and enhancements, and communicates with customers, partners, and internal teams. Requires strong knowledge of network or web security technologies, customer-facing IT experience, technical project delivery skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, low-latency backend services and REST APIs using Python, Flask, and SQLAlchemy. Establish API standards, optimize databases, implement authentication and observability, and design fault-tolerant distributed systems. Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on API contracts and integration workflows. The role also requires expertise in security, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containerization, testing, event-driven architectures, and emerging AI tooling.

Defines test strategies and performance quality gates while automating testing, deployment, rollback, and validation for scalable virtualized server platforms. Develops unit, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks; creates test plans for microservices; troubleshoots deployment issues; writes deployment scripts; and collaborates with engineering teams on integration testing and environment improvements.