Do you enjoy designing and building AI and GPU solutions for customers?
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?
Join the Global GPU Strategic Pursuits team!
Akamai is building an innovative inference cloud that will change the way people and AI agents do their work. Akamai is uniquely positioned with the most distributed cloud and networking to reimagine the fast changing space.
Shape the future of the Internet
You'll play an integral part in the sales lifecycle, supporting Sales in defining Akamai AI Inference and GPU solutions. You'll architect new and custom projects with some of the worlds most innovative companies.
As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting Akamai Large Strategic GPU and AI inference projects.
- Driving new customer acquisition, support sales and marketing go-to-market initiatives. Direct customer engagement is required.
- Leading solution and product innovation initiatives. Evangelizing local use cases/technology trends and influencing the product roadmap.
- Building technical thought-leadership in Akamai AI inference and GPU offerings to support overall Akamai business growth.
- Designing large GPU clusters to meet customer AI Inference and training needs.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience working in a customer facing technical role with a public cloud either Hyperscale or Neo Cloud
- Possess multiple certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Demonstrate experience designing, developing, or maintaining multi-tier distributed application architectures including cloud-native, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.
- Demonstrate experience designing/developing/maintaining solutions leveraging open source/core software across load balancing, web services, databases, CI/CD, and observability.
- Demonstrate experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies, i.e. registries, container runtimes, container networking, and container storage.
- Demonstrate experience architecting complex GPU and AI workloads, including GPU clusters, for model training and execution.
- Demonstrate cloud basics across CLI tools, SDKs, and automation tools like Ansible, Salt, and Terraform.
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.
Skills Required
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role with a public cloud (hyperscale or neo cloud)
- Multiple certifications from AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience designing, developing, or maintaining multi-tier distributed application architectures including cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud
- Experience designing/developing/maintaining solutions using load balancing, web services, databases, CI/CD, and observability
- Experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies (registries, runtimes, networking, storage)
- Experience architecting complex GPU and AI workloads, including GPU clusters for model training and execution
- Familiarity with cloud CLI tools, SDKs, and automation tools such as Ansible, Salt, and Terraform
- Direct customer engagement and sales-support experience
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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