Senior Security Consultant

Akamai; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Security Consultant to provide end-to-end security consultancy and services across Akamai solutions for global customers. You will act as the security contact, guiding the integrated account team to deliver trusted outcomes and proactive improvements, while maintaining strong client relationships.

You will lead efforts to optimize integration, quality of service, and customer engagement, applying knowledge of network and security technologies to resolve complex

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the information technology industry.
• Understanding of network technologies, web security or media technologies.
• Natural ability to engage, influence and build trusted relationships with customers in difficult environments.
• Experience delivering technical projects with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving in fast-changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central point of contact for customers and lead the integrated account team delivering customer success.
• Partner with the business to review integration efficiency and ensure high-quality service while keeping customers engaged.
• Identify service enhancements and potential problems to improve quality of customer service delivery.
• Communicate with internal and external customers and partners to share information and deliverables.

Skills

Customer-facing experience

Network technologies

Web security

Media technologies

Relationship building

Project delivery

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Do you relish the prospect of providing end to end support across multiple product suits?

Would providing consultancy to influence customers' Internet strategies excite you?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Team provides managed services and proactive and reactive support to our global customers. We utilize tools, process and knowledge to integrate and maintain Akamai solutions for our clients. We collaborate to solve problems, innovate and work to continuously improve for our customers and our team. We provide technical services across web, media, enterprise and security products.

Partner with the best

You’ll be the security contact, ensuring the integration and support of customers. Acting as a trusted consultant, you’ll learn and implement creative solutions helping customers leverage Akamai's products.

As a Senior Security Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Being the central point of contact for customers and leading the integrated account team delivering customer success
• Partnering with the business to review and ensure integration efficiency, high quality service and keep customers engaged
• Identifying service enhancements and potential problems to ensure continuous improvements to quality of customer service delivery
• Communicating with internal, external customers and partners to share information and deliverables

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field
• Demonstrate experience in a customer-facing role within the information technology industry
• Show understanding of working with network technologies, web security or media related technologies, methodologies and/or architectures
• Have a natural ability to engage, influence and build trusted relationships with customers in difficult environments
• Demonstrate experience in delivering technical projects with an ability to manage multiple priorities
• Be a good team player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from CA$109,900 - CA$197,700/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.