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Supports the security and compliance program by assessing security controls, evaluating compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and other frameworks, collecting audit evidence, performing control testing, tracking remediation, and reviewing technical documentation. Partners with engineering, security, business teams, and system owners to identify and resolve compliance gaps across cloud and infrastructure environments.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor validation for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like test environments, develops automated performance benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses and analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in virtualization, Linux systems, performance engineering, statistical analysis, and cross-architecture debugging.

Leads enterprise architecture and technical solution development for public sector customers. Develops Akamai portfolio solutions, contributes to RFPs, RFIs, proposals, and white papers, presents at industry events, and builds relationships with government customers and technology partners. Collaborates with product management, engineering, and sales teams while serving as a technical thought leader in cloud security, edge computing, and web application protection.

Engagement Manager II provides technology consulting and program management for government customers, guiding cloud strategy from presales through delivery. The role builds customer relationships, identifies solutions, coordinates cross-functional teams, manages technical projects, and drives satisfaction, retention, growth, and business outcomes. Candidates need consulting expertise, technical project delivery experience, knowledge of networking, web performance and security, strong communication skills, U.S. citizenship, and the ability to obtain and retain government clearance.

Leads a global 24x7 network infrastructure operations team responsible for maintaining large-scale platform infrastructure. Oversees maintenance engineers, operational policies, alerts, runbooks, incident escalations, hardware diagnostics, repairs, asset management, vendor coordination, and team training. Requires experience with Internet infrastructure, routing, access networks, data center portals, NOC environments, and management of remote technical teams.

Owns customer success for major enterprise clients by advising on Akamai solutions, assessing architectures, managing web performance, cloud, and security initiatives, and guiding adoption. Develops account strategies, builds relationships and project pipelines, leads cross-functional teams, mentors colleagues, and partners with sales and pre-sales to expand services. Requires strong technical knowledge, consulting experience, and the ability to deliver large technical programs.

Develop and operate Akamai’s Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including bare-metal and virtual machine platforms, kernels, operating systems, and KVM/QEMU virtualization. Build software, automation, observability, and infrastructure enhancements at scale; troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues; collaborate across engineering and operations; mentor team members; and participate in on-call service restoration.

Lead enterprise-wide security compliance and regulatory authorization initiatives across global cloud environments. Architect unified control frameworks, map controls to federal, defense, international, and commercial standards, manage audits and assessments, coordinate evidence and remediation, and communicate compliance risks to executives, government stakeholders, assessors, and defense agencies. Drive continuous monitoring and recurring audit readiness across multiple compliance lifecycles.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation for Akamai’s cloud compute platform, including virtualization, hypervisors, operating systems, containers, and Kubernetes infrastructure. Own system design, build proof of concepts, guide engineering teams, influence product direction and roadmaps, establish best practices, and mentor engineers while delivering highly available, fault-tolerant distributed services.

Assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements. Translate requirements into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails. Support compliance programs, control assessments, and audits, investigate security risks, define remediation, and improve security-control adoption through AI and automation.