Senior API Security Solutions Architect

Akamai Career Site; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design, integrate, and optimize security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. This role is highly hands-on with strategic architectural exposure and requires guiding customers in deploying Akamai API Security Platform.

You will partner with customer engineering and security teams, lead workshops, and help resolve complex deployment challenges across hybrid environments while leveraging AI-assisted development

Qualifications

• Experience architecting IaaS solutions for enterprise customers.
• Professional certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle) and/or CNCF preferred.
• Hands-on troubleshooting of distributed cloud-native applications across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of the API Security Platform across diverse enterprise ecosystems.
• Resolve deployment issues on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and API gateways.
• Collaborate with customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, and security teams to operationalize Akamai API Security Platform.
• Analyze API traffic to identify misconfigurations and performance bottlenecks.
• Develop deployment plans and runbooks; lead customer workshops and architecture reviews.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Docker

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

RESTful APIs/OAuth/JWT

API gateways / WAF

Networking fundamentals

Communication skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to design, integrate, and optimize security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. This role is highly hands-on with strategic architectural exposure and requires guiding customers in deploying Akamai API Security Platform.

You will partner with customer engineering and security teams, lead workshops, and help resolve complex deployment challenges across hybrid environments while leveraging AI-assisted development