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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.

Leads U.S. and Canadian public sector sales strategy, revenue growth, channel partnerships, government contract vehicle strategy, and complex procurements. Oversees Federal, SLED, and Canadian sales teams; manages quotas, pipeline, forecasting, and recruiting. Partners with engineering, product, services, compliance, and marketing teams on GovCloud roadmaps, FedRAMP requirements, and public-sector solutions. Builds relationships with senior government stakeholders and leads a high-performing sales organization.

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.

Leads strategic, cross-organizational IT transformation programs from definition and planning through execution and sustainment. Develops integrated plans, manages scope, dependencies, risks, and external implementation providers, and communicates status to executive sponsors and governance boards. The role drives stakeholder alignment, supports enterprise applications, works independently through ambiguity, and improves PMO processes through best practices.

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.

Leads multiple engineering teams developing customer-facing web applications, APIs, and services for DNS and IP Acceleration products. Responsibilities include people development, technical direction, delivery planning, dependency and risk management, architecture oversight, operational readiness, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement. The role requires balancing technical leadership with accountability for product outcomes across established products and new capabilities.