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 an Senior Solution Architect 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 their 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 Technical Solution 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 issues across Kubernetes platforms, virtual appliances, cloud infrastructure, networking, API gateways, authentication flows, hybrid architectures, and 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 adequate role-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.
- Have experience with containerized environments like Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, or traditional enterprise infrastructure systems such as Linux and VMware/OVA hosting.
- Possess hands-on experience with major cloud platforms 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.
Build your career at Akamai
Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.
With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.
Learn more
Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.
Skills Required
- Experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers
- Hold professional certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF
- Experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications
- Experience with containerized environments like Kubernetes and Docker
- Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms and IaC tools
- Understanding of API technologies like RESTful APIs and OAuth/JWT
- Exceptional communication skills to explain complex concepts
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.
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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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