Security Architect

Would you like to leverage your deep expertise in web application security?

Would you like to working directly with customers to solve their most critical technical challenges?

Join our Services Team!

The team includes 12 members promoting collaboration, growth, and knowledge sharing. As a Security Architect, you'll support the EMEA market, focusing on Italy. Collaboration with a 25-person Italian team is key, with occasional support for other EMEA accounts. This position highlights teamwork, diverse perspectives, and delivering exceptional client services in a connected, supportive environment.

Partner with the best

This Security Architect position involves consultative, customer-facing responsibilities with full client interaction. It requires daily engagement with external customers in Italy, a region demanding quick responses, clear prioritization, and extensive technical expertise.

As a Security Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Providing customer consultation by participating in calls with a Security Consultant to identify challenges and recommend customized solutions using Akamai's portfolio.
• Preparing security assessments of existing customer setups and suggesting actionable improvements to enhance overall security measures effectively.
• Designing, deploying, and verifying security configurations; clarifying testing processes on the Akamai staging network for customers as required.
• Providing daily assistance to long-term customers, ensuring their setup stays optimized and aligned with current security best practices.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Exhibit comprehensive expertise in cybersecurity concepts, network security and Content Delivery Network principles (a mandatory requirement).
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills to effectively articulate intricate technical concepts through verbal, written, and listening abilities.
• Exhibit adaptability and focus: Capable of prioritizing tasks in a dynamic customer setting while fostering meaningful professional connections over strict procedures.
• Collaborate effectively, support teammates, share knowledge, and embrace teamwork without isolating or prioritizing individual efforts over collective goals.
• Be Solution-Oriented and have proven ability to pinpoint blockers and opportunities, then design and execute efficient resolutions.
• Demonstrate fluency in English to effectively manage client discussions and team collaboration; Italian language skills are optional but appreciated.

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.