Would you like to work with cutting-edge Web and API security technology?
Would you like to protect the digital experiences of millions?
Join our prestigious Professional Services team
Our Professional Services team works directly with customers and provides managed services to EMEA customers. We are committed to continuous innovationrefining our processes, expanding our expertise, and ensuring reliable integration and operation of Akamai solutions. Through close collaboration, we solve problems creatively and drive ongoing improvement.
Partner with the best
Supporting customers through integration and optimization, you will act as a trusted advisor and a key gateway to our products and platforms teams. In this role, you will manage technical integrations and drive creative solutions across Akamai's portfolio, protecting APIs and Web applications, defending against bots and abuse with AI-driven tools, all this facilitating CDN and cloud deployments.
As a Technical Project Manager II, you will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with account teams to assess customer architecture, planning and delivering top-tier integration solutions for API and Web Security products.
- Partnering cross-functionally to enhance integration, deliver quality service, facilitate engagement, and collaborating to align feedback with product priorities.
- Identifying service improvements and issues, ensuring quality enhancement while contributing to projects that refine practices, methodologies, and integration standards.
- Participating in resolving deployment issues, advocating for customers, identifying new use cases, and collaborating with teams to showcase value.
- Tracking and reporting project metrics, milestones, risks, and outcomes while coordinating escalations across engineering, product management, customer support, and success teams.
- Mentoring and coaching other team members to share skills and knowledge and to help team development.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Show experience in a client-facing IT role and delivering technical projects while managing multiple priorities concurrently.
- Demonstrate expertise in API security concepts, shift-left strategies, web technologies like HTTP, DNS, REST, and web development methodologies.
- Have experience with cloud service deployments with one or more IaaS providers.
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills and convey complex technical concepts effectively while fostering trusted relationships with stakeholders across levels.
- Explore trending AI concepts and apply them daily while collaborating with a global team and maintaining a proactive mindset.
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
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Skills Required
- Experience in a client-facing IT role delivering technical projects and managing multiple priorities
- Expertise in API security concepts and shift-left strategies
- Knowledge of web technologies such as HTTP, DNS, and REST
- Experience with cloud service deployments using one or more IaaS providers
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to convey complex technical concepts to stakeholders
- Familiarity with AI concepts and applying AI-driven tools to security use cases
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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