Akamai
Do you want to make an impact by reinventing application security?
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
API Security gives you full visibility into your entire API estate through continuous discovery and monitoring. It conducts a risk audit of every discovered API, identifies common vulnerabilities. The team uses behavioral analytics to detect threats and abuse within this fast-growing attack surface.
Partner with the best
You will engage with our customers and partners through the sales life cycle. You will guide them during their journey of improving their API security from discovery to deployment. You will also act as the bridge between the field to product management, R&D and research.
As a Solutions Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
Managing the entire pre-sales process, including discovery, POC and implementation
Interacting with different stakeholders, both internally and externally, such as partners, customers, and salespeople
Developing, implementing, and optimizing technical sales processes and methodologies
Evangelizing best practices and always keep up with new API and Web application cybersecurity challenges
Being the technical and API security expert for our customers and partners
Providing high-quality solution design documents and customer-facing technical sessions to senior management and technical audiences
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
Have experience in technical sales positions, quota carrying, such as Pre-Sales, System Engineering, Solution Consultant, Solution Architect.
Have Cybersecurity background, knowledge of APIs, WAFs, and Web application security
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and SSL protocols
Be familiar with different cloud technologies, such as AWS, GCP, and Oracle
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to brief prospects, analyze data, and deal with customers
Be able to consistently produce high quality work while handling multiple, complex assignments
Communicate effectively in emails, RFPs, and reports and have excellent presentation skills
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.
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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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