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 experience in web applications, internet fundamentals, DNS, routing, and 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 JavaScript, and the overall DevOps framework & web development languages.
- Be proficient in one or more web development languages, methodologies, or architectures.
- Have exposure with 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.
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
- Your health
- Your finances
- Your family
- Your time at work
- Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
