Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?
Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?
Join the Technical Solutions Architect team
Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next generation applications.
Shape the future of the internet
You'll play an integral part of sales lifecycle & support Pre-Sales defining Cloud/Linode solutions as technology specialist. You will guide customers through strategic & technical aspects of Cloud transformation to drive Linode services consumption. You'll also be the thought-leader in cloud computing both outside and within Akamai.
As a Technical Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Driving new Linode customer acquisition and account growth as public cloud pre-sales, collaborating with sales on technical aspects
- Driving customer success and continuous consumption of Linode, as part of the integrated account team.
- Leading solution & product innovation initiatives. Evangelize APJ use cases/technologies & influence product roadmap with product managers
- Building technical thought-leadership in Cloud Computing/Linode to support overall Akamai APJ business growth.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5 years of professional experience including 4 years in customer facing technical role with cloud/hosting firm
- Demonstrate successful experience in architecting IaaS solutions & possess professional level certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF
- Demonstrate hands-on skills in three or more domains: Kubernetes, cloud networking, database, storage, AI & GPU, IaC/CI/CD tooling, gaming or media streaming tech stack
- Demonstrate knowledge and hands-on skills in open source software including: Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform
- Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to technical and non-technical audiences
- Have Cloud professional service delivery experience is ideal
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
- 5 years of professional experience including 4 years in a customer-facing technical role with a cloud/hosting firm
- Successful experience architecting IaaS solutions and holding professional certifications from AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle and/or CNCF
- Hands-on skills in three or more domains: Kubernetes, cloud networking, database, storage, AI & GPU, IaC/CI/CD tooling, gaming or media streaming tech stack
- Knowledge and hands-on skills in open source software including Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, able to communicate complex technical content to technical and non-technical audiences
- Cloud professional service delivery 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.
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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