Senior II Technical Solutions Architect

Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join the Technical Solutions Architect team

Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The TSA team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making compute simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next generation applications.

Shape the future of the Internet

As a TSA (specialist presales solutions engineer), you'll define Akamai Cloud/Linode solutions during the sales lifecycle. You'll guide customers through strategic and technical Cloud transformation decisions while driving Linode service adoption. You'll serve as a thought-leader in cloud computing within and outside of Akamai.

As a Senior II Technical Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:

Driving Linode opportunities forward by owning the technical sales cycle.

Owning customer success and support account growth.

Collaborating closely with sales, product teams, services, and partners.

Leading innovation in solutions and products, identify and promote trends, and influence the global product roadmap.

Building technical expertise and thought-leadership in Akamai Cloud/Linode to support Akamai's overall business growth.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Possess extensive professional customer-facing experience in technical roles with cloud-related organizations.

Demonstrate successful experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers.

Hold professional certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.

Demonstrate hands-on expertise in in 3 more domains across Kubernetes, cloud networking, database, storage, AI, IaC/CI/CD tooling, gaming or mediastreaming tech stacks.

Demonstrate experience and hands-on skills in open-source software like Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform.

Communicate complex technical content effectively through writing, speaking, and presenting to diverse technical and business audiences.

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: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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