Senior Solutions Architect
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Senior Solutions Architect at Akamai, focusing on API Security solutions for enterprise clients. Involves hands-on deployment and technical architecture responsibilities.
Responsibilities:
- Integrating and leading the deployment of the API Security Platform and its components across diverse enterprise ecosystems.
- Resolving deployment issues across Kubernetes platforms, virtual appliances, cloud infrastructure, networking, API gateways, authentication flows, hybrid architectures, and distributed applications.
- Acting as a partner to customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, networking, or security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai API Security Platform.
- Analyzing API traffic to identify misconfigurations, authentication gaps, performance bottlenecks.
- Supporting configuration of in/out-bound traffic sources for major API gateways and platforms (such as F5, Citrix, Apigee, Kong, NGINX, or MuleSoft).
- Developing enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks.
- Leading customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews.
Requirements:
- Possess adequate role-experience and customer-facing skills.
- Demonstrate extensive experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers.
- Hold professional certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
- Have experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
- Have experience with containerized environments like Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, or traditional enterprise infrastructure systems such as Linux and VMware/OVA hosting.
- Possess hands-on experience with major cloud platforms and IaC tools while understanding networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/S.
- Understand modern API technologies like RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication, and authorization; configure API gateways, ingress controllers, or WAF/WAAP.
Benefits:
- Development opportunities from programs such as GROW and Mentoring
- Internal events like the APEX Expo
- Tools such as Linkedin Learning

















