Senior Cloud & Edge Solutions Architect – Global Pre-Sales

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales, design cloud and edge solutions, and drive customer success.

You will work with sales, product, and partners to architect and validate transformative deployments across Akamai Cloud and edge platforms. You will demonstrate deep expertise across Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, and automation, delivering scalable, reliable architectures while shaping the product roadmap and best practices for

Qualifications

• 8yrs experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, or related engineering roles and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
• Extensive customer-facing experience in technical roles with cloud-related organizations.
• Experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers with certifications from ASW/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Hands-on expertise in 3+ domains across Kubernetes, cloud networking, database, storage, AI, IaC/CI/CD tooling, gaming, or media-streaming tech stacks.
• Experience with open-source software like Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform.
• Ability to communicate complex technical content to diverse technical and business audiences.
• Proficiency in modern development practices, APIs, databases, observability tools, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales support and own the technical sales opportunity from discovery to validation, deployment, and adoption.
• Collaborate with sales, product, professional services, marketing, and partners.
• Lead innovation in solutions and influence the global product roadmap.
• Build technical expertise and leadership in Akamai Cloud/Linode to support business growth.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Solutions architecture

Cloud/IaaS experience

Open-source tech

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

APIs & automation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Apache Web Server

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis

Nginx

Terraform

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales, design cloud and edge solutions, and drive customer success.

You will work with sales, product, and partners to architect and validate transformative deployments across Akamai Cloud and edge platforms. You will demonstrate deep expertise across Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, and automation, delivering scalable, reliable architectures while shaping the product roadmap and best practices for