Senior Solution Architect for API Security

Akamai Technologies; Kraków; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies in Kraków seeks a Senior Solution Architect to work on innovative security products. This role involves designing, integrating, and optimizing security solutions across various infrastructures.

The successful candidate will resolve deployment issues and support major API gateway configurations. Ideal applicants will have experience in IaaS solutions and a customer-facing background, alongside extensive knowledge of Kubernetes, API technologies, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in architecting IaaS solutions.
• Customer-facing experience required.
• Troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and deploy API Security Platform across enterprise ecosystems.
• Resolve deployment issues on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructures.
• Analyze API traffic to identify performance bottlenecks.

Skills

IaaS solutions architecture

Customer-facing skills

Kubernetes

Docker

API technologies (RESTful, OAuth)

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

Job description

Overview

Are you excited by the prospect of working with innovative security products? Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult security challenges interest you? Partner with the best. Join Akamai's Application & API Security team as a Senior Solution 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. This is a highly hands-on technical role with strategic architectural exposure. You will help customers deploy and operationalize API Security solutions as their primary role.

Responsibilities

• Integrating and leading the deployment of the API Security Platform and its components across diverse enterprise ecosystems.
• Resolving deployment issues across Kubernetes platforms, virtual appliances, cloud infrastructure, networking, API gateways, authentication flows, hybrid architectures, and distributed applications.
• Acting as a partner to customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, networking, or security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai API Security Platform.
• Analyzing API traffic to identify misconfigurations, authentication gaps, performance bottlenecks.
• Supporting configuration of in/out-bound traffic sources for major API gateways and platforms (such as F5, Citrix, Apigee, Kong, NGINX, or MuleSoft).
• Developing enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks.
• Leading customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews.

Qualifications / What You Will Love to Do

• Possess adequate role-experience and customer-facing skills.
• Demonstrate extensive experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers. Hold professional certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Have experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Have experience with containerized environments like Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, or traditional enterprise infrastructure systems such as Linux and VMware/OVA hosting.
• Possess hands-on experience with major cloud platforms and IaC tools while understanding networking fundamentals like TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/S.
• Understand modern API technologies like RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication, and authorization; configure API gateways, ingress controllers, or WAF/WAAP.
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills to clearly explain complex technical concepts and explore AI-assisted development and innovative coding approaches.

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