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 team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing 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
You'll play an integral part of sales lifecycle & support Pre-Sales defining Cloud/Linode solutions as technology specialist. You will guide customers through strategic & technical aspects of Cloud transformation to drive Linode services consumption. You'll also be the thought-leader in cloud computing both outside and within Akamai.
As a Technical Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:
- Driving new Linode customer acquisition and account growth as public cloud pre-sales, collaborating with sales on technical aspects
- Driving customer success and continuous consumption of Linode, as part of the integrated account team.
- Leading solution & product innovation initiatives. Evangelize APJ use cases/technologies & influence product roadmap with product managers
- Building technical thought-leadership in Cloud Computing/Linode to support overall Akamai APJ business growth.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5 years of professional experience including 4 years in customer facing technical role with cloud/hosting firm
- Demonstrate successful experience in architecting IaaS solutions & possess professional level certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF
- Demonstrate hands-on skills in three or more domains: Kubernetes, cloud networking, database, storage, AI & GPU, IaC/CI/CD tooling, gaming or media streaming tech stack
- Demonstrate knowledge and hands-on skills in open source software including: Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform
- Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to technical and non-technical audiences
- Have Cloud professional service delivery experience is ideal
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.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Akamai Technologies Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
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