Are you passionate about cutting edge technology and ensuring customer success?
Would you like to be a trusted advisor for cutting-edge API and Agent Security discovery, threat mitigation, posture management?
Join our Enterprise Security Solution Engineering Group!
You'll work with customers to address their evolving needs in API and Agent Security, implementing our solutions for maximum impact. Our customers rely on our platform to protect their most critical infrastructure and AI-driven workflows.
Partner with the best
You'll act as a subject matter expert in customers' API and Agent security strategies to ensure highest customer satisfaction.
As a Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations
- Translating complex technical concepts into impactful use cases for diverse audiences, from technical engineers to C-level executives
- Serving as the go-to expert on AI security for customers, internal teams, and partners
- Taking a consultative approach to solutions and solving challenges around next generation security transformation
- Acting as the technical point of contact for customers ensuring their success and satisfaction
- Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs
- Presenting Akamai's AI security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops
- Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Demonstrate expertise in Agentic Security, API and AI runtime security, network firewalls, WAF, CNAPP, and SecOps tools like SIEM/SOAR.
- Have 12 years in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields
- Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs
- Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures
- Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications
- Demonstrate proficiency in written and spoken English
- Possess good presentation skills to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
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
- 12 years of experience in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or a related cybersecurity or API security role
- Expertise in agentic security, API security, AI runtime security, network firewalls, WAF, CNAPP, SIEM, and SOAR tools
- Proficiency with TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
- Strong presentation skills and ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
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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