Senior Enterprise Architect (AI and Frontier Security)

Would shaping AI security strategy for strategic customers and helping them navigate emerging risks excite you?

Would being a trusted technical authority on emerging AI security technologies, both internally and with customers, excite you?

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Our Services Advanced Technology team works directly with customers, combining security expertise with an understanding of their evolving technology environments. We provide advisory and implementation services in AI security, agentic systems, runtime protection, and multi-cloud architecture. This way, we help Akamai's most strategic customers securely adopt and operate AI at scale.

Lead AI Security Transformation

You will provide technical advisory services and technical design and consultancy to key decision makers. This will influence your customers' business strategies and maximize the value they receive. You will be the lead on cutting edge and emerging technologies. Sharing expertise from the wider market and across the organization.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and evolving AI security architectures and standards covering agents, workloads, identities, runtime protection, and east-west containment.
• Assessing customer AI environments against security, regulatory, and risk requirements, clearly communicating coverage and confidence levels.
• Delivering security-focused consulting, architecture, and implementation guidance for complex AI and multi-cloud environments.
• Designing and evaluating controlled frontier AI use cases, measuring quality, efficiency, cost, and outcomes against existing approaches.
• Advising Global Services, Sales, Presales, and customers on AI security strategy, emerging technologies, and complex technical challenges.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8+ years of experience in security architecture, security consulting or security systems engineering, with direct customer delivery.
• Have in-depth knowledge of at least one area: application and API security, workload security, microsegmentation, IAM and multi-stack integration expertise
• Have hands-on experience building with LLM and agent systems: tool and function design, agent-to-tool protocols such as MCP, retrieval, and evaluation
• Have working knowledge of AI-specific risks, including prompt injection, tool abuse, identity sprawl, data exfiltration, and model supply chain risks.
• Demonstrate excellent written English, with the ability to produce clear, precise, and compelling reference architectures and customer-facing assessments for CISO-level audiences.
• Be willing to state uncertainty clearly and openly. This work is still evolving, and confident but incorrect answers can be costly.

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.

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