Senior Technical Solutions Architect- Remote

Do you enjoy designing and building AI and GPU solutions for customers?Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?Join the Global GPU Strategic Pursuits team!

Akamai is building an innovative inference cloud that will change the way people and AI agents do their work. Akamai is uniquely positioned with the most distributed cloud and networking to reimagine the fast changing space.

Shape the future of the Internet

You'll play an integral part in the sales lifecycle, supporting Sales in defining Akamai AI Inference and GPU solutions. You'll architect new and custom projects with some of the worlds most innovative companies.

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

• Supporting Akamai Large Strategic GPU and AI inference projects.

• Driving new customer acquisition, support sales and marketing go-to-market initiatives. Direct customer engagement is required.

• Leading solution and product innovation initiatives. Evangelizing local use cases/technology trends and influencing the product roadmap.

• Building technical thought-leadership in Akamai AI inference and GPU offerings to support overall Akamai business growth.

• Designing large GPU clusters to meet customer AI Inference and training needs.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8 years of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree

• Have experience working in a customer facing technical role with a public cloud either Hyperscale or Neo Cloud

• Possess multiple certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure.

• Demonstrate experience designing, developing, or maintaining multi-tier distributed application architectures including cloud-native, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

• Demonstrate experience designing/developing/maintaining solutions leveraging open source/core software across load balancing, web services, databases, CI/CD, and observability.

• Demonstrate experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies, i.e. registries, container runtimes, container networking, and container storage.

• Demonstrate experience architecting complex GPU and AI workloads, including GPU clusters, for model training and execution.

• Demonstrate cloud basics across CLI tools, SDKs, and automation tools like Ansible, Salt, and Terraform.

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

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Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health

• Your finances

• Your family

• Your time at work

• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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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 $108,900 - $226,100/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.