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 prestigious Enterprise Professional Services team
Our team works with world-leading companies to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and align Akamai solutions to their needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.
Partner with our Enterprise Customers
As a Solutions Architect II on Akamai’s Enterprise Professional Services team, this role provides technical consulting and integration services. Responsibilities include delivering support for Akamai’s Zero Trust Solutions, collaborating with customers across industries, and focusing on post-sales integration. The position may also involve limited participation in pre-sales activities when required.
As a Solutions Architect II, you will be responsible for:
- Leading technical integration, deployment, and troubleshooting of ZTS services for enterprise customers.
- Serving as a trusted advisor to customers, providing best practices and technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Delivering coaching and training to customers to ensure the value and usability of our products.
- Collaborating with internal teams to address intricate technical challenges, documenting resolutions, developing technical materials, and fostering knowledge exchange within the group.
- Participating in pre-sales activities as needed (e.g., technical workshops, POCs).
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess 6+ years of experience in web application or network security deployment, or supporting security solutions within an IT vendor environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of Network Security and Zero Trust principles, expertise in VPN and proxy technologies.
- Have experience with cloud provider ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
- Demonstrate expertise in networking protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and TLS.
- Demonstrate expertise in authentication technologies and methods, including SAML, OIDC, and identity providers.
- Demonstrate expertise with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking technologies and scripting using Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar tools.
- Demonstrate expertise in at least one web development language or framework while ensuring high-quality implementation.
- Demonstrate exceptional consulting and client management abilities; present intricate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
Skills Required
- 6+ years experience in web application or network security deployment or supporting security solutions within an IT vendor environment
- Knowledge of Network Security and Zero Trust principles; expertise in VPN and proxy technologies
- Experience with cloud provider ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Expertise in networking protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and TLS
- Expertise in authentication technologies and methods including SAML, OIDC, and identity providers
- Expertise with Layer 3 and Layer 4 networking technologies and scripting using Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar tools
- Expertise in at least one web development language or framework
- Strong consulting and client management abilities; ability to present complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
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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