Support Delivery Manager

Akamai Career Site; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 89,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

RRSP

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Bonuses

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Support Delivery Manager to lead strategic accounts from Canada (Remote). The role focuses on maximizing customer success across cloud compute, security, and delivery products, shaping SIPs and driving operational efficiency.

You will collaborate with services, engineering, and product teams, manage escalations, and influence roadmaps while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships. This role requires technical communication and executive-level collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree are required.
• Experience in account management or customer success in a technical environment is preferred.
• Experience analyzing data to inform continuous process improvements.
• Basic understanding of networking, cloud compute, WAF, cloud security and internet protocols.
• Proven success building trusted relationships with stakeholders from executives to technical teams.
• Familiar with security technology, security event management, or security compliance.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills for conveying complex technical content.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic, premium accounts by developing partnerships with customer stakeholders and leveraging Akamai products.
• Use data-driven SIPs to drive process improvement and operational efficiency for customers.
• Identify and escalate risks; coordinate with Support, Professional Services, Engineering, and Product teams.
• Monitor KPIs and trends to mitigate future risks and influence best practices adoption.
• Influence product roadmaps to communicate business benefits across a broad product portfolio.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and customer advocate to deliver, support, and technically manage Akamai solutions.

Skills

8 years exp

Relationship building

Networking basics

Cloud compute knowledge

Security concepts

Data analysis

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/MIS or related field

Job description

Support Delivery Manager (10:00am ET- 7:00pm ET)

Canada (Remote)

Job Description

Does solving complex challenges motivate and excite you?

Join our Support Delivery Services Team!

Our customer-centric team builds innovative and tailored solutions for our customers to help them achieve their vision. We collaborate to understand our customers and to deliver results and possibilities for their growth and success. We build trusted relationships through clear communication, honesty and listening to our customers.

Partner with the best

You are a critical part of our strategic customers' success journey, maximizing their customer support advocacy experience. You will be an advisor, influencing services and product adoption, with an adaptable and optimized account strategy. You will use your analytical aptitude to guide operational efficiencies and deliver service improvement plans (SIPs).

As a Support Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Owning strategic, premium accounts by developing strong partnerships with customer stakeholders, using in-depth knowledge of our cloud compute, security and delivery products and business processes to meet their needs
• Leveraging a data driven approach to build strategic Service Improvement Plans (SIPs), focusing on process improvement and operational efficiency for our customers
• Proactively identifying and escalating risks, driving problem prevention, and managing customer escalations via coordination with Support Services, Professional Services, Engineering, and Products teams
• Managing key performance metrics and trends to mitigate future risks prior to major customer milestones and influencing adoption of best practices
• Influencing product roadmaps and improvements to associate and advocate business benefits through extensive technical expertise across an expanded product portfolio
• Being a subject matter expert and serving as a customer advocate to deliver, support, and techincally manage Akamai solutions

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, Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent.
• Have experience working in account management or customer success role in a technical environment, like a cloud infrastructure, application hosting, networking, security or modern compute environment
• Have experience of analyzing data to inform continuous process improvements
• Have a basic understanding of networking, cloud compute, WAF, cloud security and internet protocols such as DNS, HTTP, and TCP/IP
• Have a proven success building trusted relationships with stakeholders ranging from executive leadership to technical teams
• Be familiar with security technology, process and concepts, security event management, or security compliance
• Demonstrate good written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to a range of audiences

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary for this position ranges from 89,300 - 160,700 CAD/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications. 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, RRSP, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Job Info

• Job Identification 4125
• Posting Date 10/14/2026, 06:51 PM
• Locations 343 Preston Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1N4, CA (Remote)