Cloud Solutions Architect II — Pre-Sales & Cloud Innovation

Akamai Career Site; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Technical Solutions Architect to design and promote Cloud/Linode solutions for customers in a fast-moving APJ environment. You will guide customers through strategic and technical aspects of cloud transformation, and act as a thought-leader in cloud computing both inside and outside Akamai.

You will collaborate with sales on technical aspects, drive adoption and consumption of Linode, and shape product roadmaps through innovation and cross-functional influence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical cloud/hosting role.
• Experience architecting complex IaaS solutions.
• Hands-on in Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, storage, AI & GPU, and IaC/CI/CD.
• Familiar with open source stacks including Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive new Linode customer acquisition and account growth as public cloud pre-sales, in collaboration with sales.
• Drive customer success and consumption of Linode as part of the integrated account team.
• Lead solution and product innovation initiatives; evangelize APJ use cases and influence roadmaps.
• Build technical thought-leadership in Cloud Computing/Linode to support Akamai APJ growth.

Skills

Customer-facing technical role

Public cloud expertise

Kubernetes

IaC/CI/CD tooling

Open source tech stack

Education

AWS/GCP/Azure architect-level certifications

Tools

Apache Web Server

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis

Nginx

Terraform

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Technical Solutions Architect to design and promote Cloud/Linode solutions for customers in a fast-moving APJ environment. You will guide customers through strategic and technical aspects of cloud transformation, and act as a thought-leader in cloud computing both inside and outside Akamai.

You will collaborate with sales on technical aspects, drive adoption and consumption of Linode, and shape product roadmaps through innovation and cross-functional influence.