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 architect optimum solutions for customer's unique requirements.
Partner with our enterprise customers
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, 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 2+ years experience and good knowledge in web applications, internet fundamentals, DNS, routing, communication protocols.
- Demonstrate knowledge of 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 the overall DevOps framework & web development languages.
- Demonstrate experience in a technical customer-facing role and a desire to deliver consulting services.
- Have experience solving complex technical challenges with innovative 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.
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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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