Senior Enterprise Security Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Enterprise Security Architect to lead the technical sales lifecycle for AI and API security, translating complex concepts into compelling use cases for diverse audiences.

You will serve as the go-to expert on AI security, drive security transformation, and ensure customer success by coordinating with product, engineering, and sales teams.

Qualifications

• 12 years in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Expertise in API and AI security, cloud and network technologies.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience deploying Kubernetes clusters and containerized apps.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to translate complex concepts into practical use cases.
• Subject matter expert on AI security.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical sales lifecycle from discovery to solution delivery.
• Translate complex concepts into impactful use cases for diverse audiences.
• Serve as the go-to expert on AI security for customers and partners.
• Take a consultative approach to security transformation challenges.
• Act as the technical point of contact to ensure customer success.
• Gather requirements and align solutions with product and engineering teams.
• Present Akamai’s AI security vision at conferences, webinars, and workshops.
• Collaborate with sales, product management, and engineering to improve experience.

Skills

Agentic Security

API security

AI runtime security

Network security

WAF

CNAPP

SIEM/SOAR

Presentation skills

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology and ensuring customer success?

Would you like to be a trusted advisor for cutting-edge API and Agent Security discovery, threat mitigation, posture management?

Join our Enterprise Security Solution Engineering Group!

You’ll work with customers to address their evolving needs in API and Agent Security, implementing our solutions for maximum impact. Our customers rely on our platform to protect their most critical infrastructure and AI-driven workflows.

Partner with the best

You’ll act as a subject matter expert in customers’ API and Agent security strategies to ensure highest customer satisfaction.

As a Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations

• Translating complex technical concepts into impactful use cases for diverse audiences, from technical engineers to C-level executives

• Serving as the go‑to expert on AI security for customers, internal teams, and partners

• Taking a consultative approach to solutions and solving challenges around next generation security transformation

• Acting as the technical point of contact for customers ensuring their success and satisfaction

• Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs

• Presenting Akamai’s AI security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops

• Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in Agentic Security, API and AI runtime security, network firewalls, WAF, CNAPP, and SecOps tools like SIEM/SOAR.

• Have 12 years in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields

• Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs

• Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures

• Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications

• Demonstrate proficiency in written and spoken English

• Possess good presentation skills to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you’re streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we’re the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world’s most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery : Scaling the world’s biggest moments without a glitch.

AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world’s most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don’t just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we’re the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

FlexBase adapts to your job’s needs

Akamai’s FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It’s not about telling employees where to work; it’s about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

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