Would providing consultancy to shape the online strategies of Government organizations excite you?
Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge technology?
Join our prestigious Government Services team
We support some of the largest organizations in the world. Our team helps make the Internet work by successfully integrating customer web applications onto our Intelligent platform. We support government customers from the US and Canada, such as Civilian, DOD, State, Local and Education. Using cutting edge web acceleration and security technologies with bold innovation, we maximize the value for customers.
Partner with the best
As an Engagement Manager, you will focus on maximizing customer satisfaction, retention and growth throughout the relationship. Program managing from pre-sales through service delivery, you'll help to evolve your customers' cloud strategies from concept to implementation. As an industry expert, you'll be responsible for delivering business outcomes for customers through innovation, great relationships and business understanding.
As an Engagement Manager II, you will be responsible for:
- Strategizing to establish key relationships, building and maintaining a project pipeline and delivering customer targets effectively
- Partnering with pre-sales to educate customers on Akamai services and solutions to make the best recommendations for their needs
- Maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and growth based on the customer's needs and business requirements
- Being the central point of contact for the customer and cross-functional teams
- Owning program management and being a trusted advisor in ensuring customers get maximum value from our solutions
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have US citizenship, due to the nature of our client base
- Must be able to obtain and retain a government clearance
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of consulting process to identify the best solutions and ensure customer success
- Show experience of managing and delivering technical customer projects successfully
- Demonstrate understanding of network technologies, web performance, web security, methodologies or architectures
- Be a natural communicator with an ability to build trusting relationships and ensuring customer success
- Be a team player with an ability to work independently and as part of a remote team
- Possess a technical aptitude and a desire to constantly learn new technologies
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Compensation
Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and retain a government security clearance
- Deep understanding of the consulting process
- Experience managing and successfully delivering technical customer projects
- Understanding of network technologies, web performance, web security, methodologies, or architectures
- Strong communication skills and ability to build trusting customer relationships
- Ability to work independently and as part of a remote team
- Technical aptitude and willingness to continuously learn new technologies
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
Akamai Technologies Insights
What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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