Solutions Architect II - Hybrid - Reston, VA

Join our prestigious Government Services team. Our customer‑centric team builds innovative and tailored solutions for our customers to help them achieve their vision. We collaborate to understand customer needs, deliver results, and build trusted relationships through clear communication, honesty, and listening to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with customers to understand their technical and business needs, to ensure customer success
• Working closely with Akamai and customer teams to design the best solutions and implementation plans
• Collaborating with Professional Service team members to implement and execute best practice solutions for our customers
• Being an integral part of testing and live deployment of our solutions to ensure a smooth and timely integration for customers
• Owning technical aspects of solution delivery and ongoing support to configure, debug, document, test, go live, identify and mitigate risks
• Participating on internal projects to contribute to best practices, improving the quality of Akamai's integrations

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship due to legal requirements of our customer base
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret Clearance
• 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or its equivalent
• Comfortable working within a Linux command line environment within an Information Technology industry
• Understanding of customers' technical challenges and ability to design, architect, configure, and test solutions with remarkable attention to detail and time management
• Demonstrated understanding of working with network technologies, web development languages, methodologies and architectures
• Desire to solve complex technical challenges with innovative solutions

Work in a Way That Works for You

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, allows employees to choose from working at home, in the office, or both (offered in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally and helps us attract talent anywhere.

Benefits

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavours

Compensation

For U.S. based candidates only, the base salary for this position ranges from $100,700 - $181,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and 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). Eligibility requirements apply.

EEO Statement

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.