Senior Solutions Engineer

Would you enjoy working with the world’s leading brands?

Do you love designing and selling innovative solutions to customers?

Join our Public Sector Pre-Sales team!

We work with large-scale government and regulated industries to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will work with all the technologies Akamai has to offer. By partnering with engineering and business teams you will become the technical expert our customers rely on. Through building relationships with organizations, you will deliver innovative solutions that will impact millions of users.

• Creating sales opportunities by managing the pre-sales technical process and demonstrating Akamai’s technology to customers
• Managing the technical proposal process and ensuring all technical information and recommendations addressing customer requirements are accurate
• Tracking account activity for business analysis and reporting, designing technical solutions to meet our customers needs.
• Leading sales activities such as Technical Demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs).

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
• Have ship, due to the nature of our client base
• Have experience working in a customer-facing consulting, technical solutions pre‑sales or pose sales role
• Have background and experience in web acceleration, web security, infrastructure security technologies or cloud computing solutions
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, SSL protocols and Cloud Computing
• Be a customer advocate passionate about delivering technical solutions
• Demonstrate experience with presenting technical topics to diverse audiences
• Be a team player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment

Flex Base, 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. Flex Base, 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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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.

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