Enterprise Architect - API Security

Job Description

Join Akamai's Application & API Security team as an Enterprise Architect. You will work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises, designing, integrating, and optimizing security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. This is a highly hands‑on technical role with strategic architectural exposure, helping customers deploy and operationalize API Security solutions.

• Design and implement scalable application and API security architectures across enterprise environments.
• Partner with customer engineering, Dev Ops, cloud, networking, and security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, API gateways, authentication flows, hybrid architectures, and distributed applications.
• Integrate Akamai API Security solutions with Kubernetes platforms, API gateways, WAF/WAAP solutions, CDN architectures, SIEM and observability platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze API traffic and application behavior to identify misconfigurations, authentication gaps, and performance bottlenecks.
• Develop enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks.
• Lead customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent with 7+ years of technical engineering/architecture experience in enterprise environments.
• 2+ years of experience in customer‑facing technical roles such as Enterprise/Solutions Architect, Solutions/Platform/Site Reliability/Cloud Dev Sec Ops  Engineering.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux systems, and one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, load balancing, reverse proxies, routing.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed cloud‑native applications and debugging across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Knowledge of modern API technologies: RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication and authorization.
• Experience with API gateways, Ingress controllers, reverse proxies, WAF/WAAP technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and executive stakeholders.

Akamai provides industry‑leading benefits including health, wellness, financial, and life‑beyond‑work support. See our benefits for full details.

For U.S. based candidates, the base salary ranges from $119,600 to $215,400 per year, with additional incentive compensation, equity awards, and employee stock purchase plan options. Compensation for candidates outside the U.S. varies.