[Hiring] Senior II Enterprise Security Architect @Akamai

Role Description

Do you want to make an impact by reinventing API Security and protect organizations from cyber threats? Do you aspire to be the technical expert for the entire pre-sales lifecycle to drive business success? Join the Specialists Solution Engineering Group for API Security.

Akamai API Security solution gives our customers full discovery, visibility and security into their entire API estate through continuous discovery, monitoring and automated prevention.

Your role includes technical engagement with our customers and partners throughout the pre-sales cycle, guiding them through the process of improving their API security from discovery, deployment, and prevention. You will also serve as the regional expert and bridge between the field and product management, R&D, and research.

As a Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the entire pre-sales lifecycle, from initial conversation, demo, POV, RFP, competitive analysis, and supporting the post-sales conversation.
• Interacting with different stakeholders, both internally and externally, such as partners, customers, salespeople, product management, and leadership.
• Developing, implementing, and optimizing technical sales processes and methodologies.
• Evangelizing best practices and keeping up with new API and web application cybersecurity challenges.
• Being the technical and API security expert for our customers and partners.
• Attending and presenting at various events and providing high-quality solution design documents.

Qualifications

• Experience in technical sales positions, quota carrying and customer facing, such as Pre-Sales, System Engineering, Solution Consultant, Solution Architect.
• Cybersecurity background, knowledge of APIs, WAFs, and web application security.
• Comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and SSL protocols.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to brief prospects, analyze data, and deal with customers.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, and service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, NGINX).
• Effective communication in emails, RFPs, and reports, with excellent presentation skills.

Benefits

• FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, allows 95% of employees to choose to work from home, the office, or both.
• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
• Benefit options designed to meet individual needs for health, finances, family, work-life balance, and personal pursuits.

Company Description

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 keeping experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.