Enterprise Architect - API Security

Overview

Join Akamai's Application & API Security team as an Enterprise Architect. You will work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises. You will design, integrate, and optimize security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. Highly hands‑on technical role with strategic architectural exposure. You'll help customers deploy and operationalize API Security solutions as their primary role.

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

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent and at least 7+ years of technical engineering/architecture function in enterprise environments.
• Have 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 such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, load balancing, reverse proxies, and routing.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed cloud‑native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Understanding of modern API technologies including RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication and authorization.
• Experience with API gateways, ingress controllers, reverse proxies, and WAF/WAAP technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders.

For US‑based candidates only the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600–$215,400 per year. Compensation will be determined by factors including but not limited to relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Candidates outside the US will receive a varying compensation package. The package may also include incentive compensation, equity awards, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), an industry‑leading benefits package, and other financial benefits.

Eligibility requirements apply.

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.