Senior Cloud & Edge Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); 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 and design cloud/edge solutions for customers.

You will partner with sales, product, services, and partners to drive adoption and innovation across Akamai Cloud/Linode. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in technical roles, certifications in major cloud platforms, and hands-on experience across Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, AI, and IaC/CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• 8yrs experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, or related engineering roles and a Bachelor's degree or it's equivalent.
• Extensive professional customer-facing experience in technical roles with cloud-related organizations.
• Experience in architecting IaaS solutions for customers. Hold professional certifications from AWS/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.
• Communicate complex technical content effectively through writing, speaking, and presenting to diverse technical and business audiences.
• Proficiency in modern development practices, APIs, databases, observability tools, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Providing pre-sales support, manage and own the technical sales opportunity from discovery through to validation, deployment, and continuous adoption.
• Collaborating closely with sales, product teams, professional services, marketing, and partners.
• Leading innovation in solutions and products, identify and promote trends, and influence the global product roadmap.
• Building technical expertise and through-leadership in Akamai Cloud/Linode to support Akamai's overall business growth.

Skills

Technical pre-sales

Solutions architecture

Cloud IaaS

Kubernetes

Open-source tech

Communication

APIs

Automation

IaC/CI-CD tooling

Cloud certs AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle/CNCF

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 and design cloud/edge solutions for customers.

You will partner with sales, product, services, and partners to drive adoption and innovation across Akamai Cloud/Linode. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in technical roles, certifications in major cloud platforms, and hands-on experience across Kubernetes, cloud networking, databases, AI, and IaC/CI/CD tooling.