Enterprise Architect - API Security

Are you passionate about cloud-native technologies, enterprise architecture, API Security, and solving complex technical challenges at scale? Do you enjoy working across multiple technologies and helping organizations build secure, modern application ecosystems? Partner with the best Join Akamai's Application & API Security team as an Enterprise Architect. You will work directly with some of the world's largest enterprises. You will design, integrate, and optimize security solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, networking, and API infrastructures. Highly hands‑on technical role with strategic architectural exposure. You'll help customers deploy and operationalize API Security solutions as their primary role. Become a technical influencer You'll work beyond a single product helping customers understand how Akamai technologies work together. Delivering end-to-end application and API protection. Ideal for engineers and architects troubleshooting deep technical problems while also growing into broader enterprise architecture and security strategy. Guiding broader security and application modernization initiatives across API Security, WAAP/WAF, CDN, Bot Management, AI-powered protections, Zero Trust, and cloud security. Responsibilities Designing and implementing scalable Application and API Security architectures across enterprise environments Partnering with customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, networking and security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai solutions Troubleshooting complex issues involving Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, Networking, API gateways, Authentication flows, Hybrid architectures, Distributed applications Integrating Akamai API Security solutions with Kubernetes platforms, API gateways, WAF/WAAP solutions, CDN architectures, SIEM and observability platforms, CI/CD pipelines Analyzing API traffic and application behavior to identify Misconfigurations, Authentication gaps, Performance bottlenecks Developing enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks Leading customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews Qualifications Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; 7+ years of technical engineering/architecture function in enterprise environments Have 2+ years of experience in customer‑facing technical roles such as Enterprise/Solutions Architect, Solutions/Platform/Site Reliability/Cloud DevSecOps Engineering Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux systems and with one or more major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, Load balancing, Reverse proxies, Routing Experience troubleshooting distributed cloud‑native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers Understand modern API technologies including RESTful APIs, OAuth/JWT, API authentication and authorization Experience with API gateways, Ingress controllers, Reverse proxies, WAF/WAAP technologies Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders Compensation Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only, the base salary ranges from $119,600 - $215,400/year; salary determined by factors such as experience, skills, certifications, location. Compensation 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 focusing on mental and financial wellness; eligibility requirements apply. Benefits Benefits at Akamai support your health, well‑being, finances, and life beyond work. #J-18808-Ljbffr