Do you enjoy creating innovative and strategic solutions to solve complex problems?
Would the opportunity to provide technical consulting services to our customers excite you?
Join our Professional Services team!
This team supports some of the world's major organizations in successfully integrating their websites on our platform. As an integrated team, we deliver services to architects with optimum solutions for customers' unique requirements.
Partner with the best
Work with Akamai's customers to design and implement solutions maximizing ROI, reducing risk, and optimizing business initiatives. You will collaborate to solve complex infrastructure and application performance challenges aligned with our customers' business strategy.
As a Solutions Architect II, you will be responsible for:
- Owning the design, architecture, testing, and go-live technical aspects to ensure web, media, and security solutions.
- Being a proactive technical consultant and trusted advisor for our customers, delivering value with every engagement.
- Analyzing customer traffic and implementing Akamai security/delivery/compute solutions to address customers' security/delivery/compute needs
- Delivering coaching and training to customers to ensure the value and usability of our products.
- Partnering with cross-functional teams to resolve issues that arise during customer implementations.
- Leveraging Akamai tooling for technical implementation, automation, and enabling the use of APIs
Do what you love
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Have a Bachelor's degree, with 5+ years of experience in web applications, internet fundamentals, DNS, routing, and communication protocols.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the common OWASP top 10 and how they relate to internet service compromise or attacks.
- Be familiar with scripting languages such as Python/PERL/JavaScript and JavaScript, and the overall DevOps framework & web development languages.
- Be proficient in one or more web development languages, methodologies, or architectures.
- Have exposure to Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Show expertise in a technical client-facing role, aiming to provide consulting services and resolve complex challenges through creative solutions.
- Display communication and presentation skills that allow you to articulate highly technical information concisely.
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
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in web applications, internet fundamentals, DNS, routing, communication protocols
- Knowledge of OWASP top 10
- Familiarity with scripting languages
- Proficiency in one or more web development languages
- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure
- Expertise in a technical client-facing role
- Strong communication and presentation skills
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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