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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2001-07

Cloud Computing • Cybersecurity • Content Delivery

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud services provider that specializes in delivering security, cloud computing, and content delivery solutions. It offers a range of services such as API security, DDoS protection, and performance optimization for web applications, ensuring secure and reliable user experiences. With a robust global infrastructure, Akamai empowers businesses to streamline their digital presence while safeguarding against various cyber threats and enhancing application performance.

📋 Description

• Integrating and leading the deployment of the API Security Platform and its components across diverse enterprise ecosystems. • Resolving deployment problems on Kubernetes platforms, Virtual Appliances, Cloud infrastructure, Networking, API gateways, Authentication flows, Hybrid architectures, 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 an adequate technical role with over 6 years of 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. • Utilize Virtualization, containerized environments like Kubernetes K8S, Openshift, Docker, Helm , or classic enterprise infrastructure systems (Linux, VMware/OVA hosting). • Possess hands-on experience with major cloud platforms AWS, Azure 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. • Demonstrate exceptional communication skills to clearly explain complex technical concepts and explore AI-assisted development and innovative coding approaches.

🏖️ Benefits

• We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. • FlexBase adapts to your job's needs.