Senior AI Security Architect (Pre-Sales)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Enterprise Security Architect to own the technical sales lifecycle for API and Agent Security solutions. You will translate complex concepts into compelling use cases for engineers and executives, and serve as the AI security expert for customers, internal teams, and partners.

You will gather requirements, work with product and engineering to align solutions to customer needs, and present Akamai's AI security vision at conferences and workshops.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Agentic Security and API security strategies.
• 12 years in technical pre-sales/solution architecture in cybersecurity or API fields.
• Proficiency with TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience deploying Kubernetes clusters and containerized apps.
• Strong written and spoken English; strong presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical sales lifecycle: discovery, design, and demos.
• Translate complex tech concepts into use cases for diverse audiences.
• Serve as go-to AI security expert for customers and partners.
• Consult on next-gen security transformation challenges.
• Be the technical point of contact to ensure customer success.
• Gather requirements and align solutions with product/engineering.

Skills

Agentic Security

API security

AI runtime security

Network firewalls

WAF

CNAPP

SecOps tools SIEM/SOAR

12 years experience

TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, REST

Cloud infrastructure AWS Azure GCP

Kubernetes & containerization

English proficiency

Presentation skills

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Enterprise Security Architect to own the technical sales lifecycle for API and Agent Security solutions. You will translate complex concepts into compelling use cases for engineers and executives, and serve as the AI security expert for customers, internal teams, and partners.

You will gather requirements, work with product and engineering to align solutions to customer needs, and present Akamai's AI security vision at conferences and workshops.