Solutions Architect (Post Sales) – Remote

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 Solutions Architect 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

As a Solutions Architect, you will turn guidelines into frameworks for use by internal and external teams. Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, you’ll learn how Akamai’s web-scale systems work. You will also guide the company to efficiently meet our security obligations.

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 through delivering value with every engagement

Acting as a trusted technical advisor to our strategic customers

Delivering coaching and training to customers to ensure value and usability from our products

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:

Understand how the internet (IP, DNS and routing, HTTP, TCP or web architecture) works

Have experience of using languages such as Java, Python or PHP and JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Have a fundamental understanding of Linux/Unix systems alongside scripting languages such as Python, PERL and JavaScript

Demonstrate experience in a technical customer-facing role and a desire to deliver consulting services

Have experience solving complex technical challenges with innovative solutions

Display communication and presentation skills showing your ability to articulate technical information (Fluent Japanese and Conversational English)

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.

what makes Akamai a great place to work

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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!

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