Solutions architect

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 prestigious Professional Services team

Our Team provides managed services and proactive and reactive support to our global customers. We utilize tools, process and knowledge to integrate and maintain Akamai security, media, and performance solutions for our clients. We collaborate to solve problems, innovate to provide creative solutions and work to continuously improve for our customers and our team.

Partner with our enterprise customers

You'll be involved with projects end-to-end, from design through implementation, testing and sign-off. As the technical expert, you will lead the way in delivering the best solution to our customers. Collaborating with a cross-functional team, in a fast-moving environment, across our cutting-edge technologies you'll never stop learning.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Owning all technical aspects of delivery (e.g. design, test, go-live) of media, web and security solutions
• Being a proactive technical consultant for our customers, delivering value with every engagement
• Innovating and continually improving our internal methodologies and processes
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to resolve issues that arise during customer implementations.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 yrs of relevant experience with High School Diploma - Bachelor's Diploma or equivalent
• Have experience with internet technologies and understanding of IP networks, DNS, routing and communication protocols
• Have experience with Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Demonstrate experience in a technical customer-facing role and a desire to deliver consulting services
• Have experience working with scripting languages such as Python, PERL and JavaScript
• Demonstrate a proactive nature and work with a sense of urgency with a constant desire to learn
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers

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:

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