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Serve as a technical partner-facing presales engineer: build trusted partner relationships, enable partners to resell and support Akamai products, support channel sales to grow revenue, create customized sales resources and use cases, present technical solutions, and represent partner needs across product, marketing, services, and support.

Leads geographically distributed Business Analyst and Software Engineering teams delivering global enterprise Time and Pay solutions. Owns strategy, architecture, development, integrations, modernization, automation, quality, and operational performance across Oracle and ADP platforms. Partners with HR, Finance, vendors, and technology leaders to define roadmaps, address multinational payroll and workforce requirements, and deliver scalable solutions. Requires extensive enterprise application leadership, cloud, AI, systems integration, and transformation experience.

Design and scale automated test frameworks for Akamai’s custom Linux kernel, hardware compatibility, performance, reliability, security, and OS imaging. Develop hardware validation suites, support kernel and virtualization upgrades, troubleshoot low-level system issues, and improve continuous integration and testing infrastructure across AI and compute platforms.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution for a globally distributed cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernels; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the open-source Linux community.

Build and maintain cloud-native applications and services for Akamai’s IaaS platform. Develop platform features from requirements through design, testing, and deployment; integrate Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies; collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, and test engineers in an Agile continuous-delivery environment. The role focuses on creating scalable, reliable, secure platforms that simplify product development and user experience.

Design and guide IAM platform architectures for Akamai’s globally distributed cloud systems. Evaluate software solutions against technical requirements, establish reusable software and systems building blocks, support operational success, and advise on build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate with management, engineering, product management, quality engineering, and SRE teams while providing technical direction rather than primarily developing software.

Develop and maintain high-reliability, high-throughput backend systems for managing security certificates and configurations. Responsibilities include designing scalable systems, building features, optimizing performance, working with relational and NoSQL databases, and collaborating with testing and SQA teams on deployments. The role requires project-based experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, Terraform, SQL, Linux/Unix, and database technologies.

Serves as a dedicated technical advisor for enterprise customers using Akamai cloud and edge compute solutions. Develops customer success plans, drives cloud adoption and retention, advises on workload placement, scalability, performance, AI inferencing, and agentic AI strategies, and translates business objectives into cloud solutions. Collaborates with product, engineering, support, and services teams while tracking customer health, retention, NPS, and cloud consumption metrics.

Leads technical pre-sales activities for public sector and regulated-industry customers. Creates sales opportunities, manages technical proposals, designs solutions, delivers demonstrations, and leads proofs of concept. Partners with engineering and business teams to align Akamai technologies with customer requirements, provides technical expertise, tracks account activity, and presents solutions to diverse audiences.

Designs scalable, secure, resilient cloud and data architectures for high-volume services. Evaluates cloud technologies, develops reusable Terraform infrastructure and automation, and serves as a database architecture expert for PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, and Valkey. Builds prototypes and reference implementations, designs highly available distributed database systems, coaches engineers, partners with product and SRE teams, and converts validated concepts into production-ready architecture patterns.