Senior Technical Solutions Architect, Beijing

Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions for customers?Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?Join the APJ Technical Solutions Architect team

Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next generation applications.

Shape the future of the Internet

As Senior Technical Solutions Architect, you'll be key in defining Cloud/Linode solutions during presales. Guiding customers in strategic and technical Cloud transformation, you'll drive Linode service adoption and consumption. In addition, you'll also be the thought-leader in cloud computing both outside and within Akamai.

As a Technical Solutions Architect Senior, you will be responsible for:

• Driving Linode opportunities as a public cloud presales engineer, and leading technical sales.
• Driving customer success and Linode adoption within the account team; cloud service delivery experience is beneficial.
• Leading solution innovation, promoting local tech trends, and shaping the product roadmap with global managers.
• Building technical thought leadership in Cloud Computing/Linode to drive Akamai's business growth.
• Leading Pre-Sales SME enablement groups on Linode and public cloud technology stack.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 7+ years of professional experience including 5+ years working in a customer facing technical role with public cloud, consulting, hosting, or cloud software expertise.
• Demonstrate excellent experience in architecting complex IaaS solutions for customers.
• Possess one or more professional level certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Demonstrate in-depth skills & certifications in at least three of: Kubernetes, cloud, AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle, AI & GPU, IaC/CI/CD and/or CNCF.
• Demonstrate knowledge and hands-on skills in open source including but not limited to: Apache Web Server, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, Terraform, etc.
• Demonstrate good expertise in GPU-based infrastructure including GPU workload optimization, distributed inference and scaling strategies is ideal.
• Demonstrate excellent English & Mandarin written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to 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.

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