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Akamai Technologies, Inc. Technical Solutions Architect Senior (Senior Cloud Compute Presales â New Customer Acquisition) - Remote in United Kingdom
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 EMEA Presales Cloud Specialist 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
You'll play an integral part in the sales lifecycle, supporting Sales in defining Akamai Cloud Computing solutions. You'll guide customers through the strategic and technical aspects of their Cloud transformation journey. In addition, you'll also be the thought-leader in cloud computing both outside and within Akamai.
As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, you will be responsible for:
Supporting Akamai Cloud Computing opportunities in EMEA as a Pre-Sales technology specialist and technical escalation point.
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 Cloud Computing to support overall Akamai business growth.
Contributing to Pre-Sales SME enablement groups on Akamai Cloud Computing and public cloud technology stack.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have experience working in a customer facing technical role with a public cloud or cloud software company,
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 problem solving skills, with the ability to create clarity from highly ambiguous customer requirements.
Have experience solving business and technical problems through active listening/clarifying structured analytical and creative thinking.
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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