Senior Solutions Architect

Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative security products?

Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult security challenges interest you?

Partner with the best

Join Akamai's Application & API Security team as a Senior Solution Architect. You will work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises. You will design, integrate, and optimize security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. Highly hands-on technical role with strategic architectural exposure. You'll help customers deploy and operationalize API Security solutions as the primary role.

Become a Technical Influencer

This role supports customers in leveraging Akamai technologies for application and API protection. It suits individuals passionate about resolving technical challenges and enhancing skills in enterprise architecture and security. Responsibilities encompass aiding efforts in App and API Security, WAF, Bot Management, AI-driven protections, CDN, Zero Trust, and cloud security solutions.

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Integrating and leading the deployment of the API Security Platform and its components across diverse enterprise ecosystems.
• Resolving deployment problems on Kubernetes platforms, Virtual Appliances, Cloud infrastructure, Networking, API gateways, Authentication flows, Hybrid architectures, Distributed applications.
• Acting as a partner to customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, networking, or security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai API Security Platform.
• Analyzing API traffic to identify misconfigurations, authentication gaps, performance bottlenecks.
• Supporting configuration of in/out-bound traffic sources for major API gateways and platforms (such as F5, Citrix, Apigee, Kong, NGINX, or MuleSoft).
• Developing enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks.
• Leading customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess an adequate technical role with over 6 years of experience and customer-facing skills.
• Demonstrate extensive experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers. Hold professional certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Have experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Utilize Virtualization, containerized environments like Kubernetes K8S, Openshift, Docker, Helm , or classic enterprise infrastructure systems (Linux, VMware/OVA hosting).
• Possess hands-on experience with major cloud platforms AWS, Azure and IaC tools while understanding networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/S.
• Understand modern API technologies like RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication, and authorization; configure API gateways, ingress controllers, or WAF/WAAP.
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills to clearly explain complex technical concepts and explore AI-assisted development and innovative coding approaches.

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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