Enterprise Architect - API Security

Location: United States; Remote

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

As an Enterprise Architect - Web, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and implement 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

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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 Dev Sec Ops Engineering
• Have hands-on experience with: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux systems and with one or more major cloud platforms such as:AWS, Azure, GCP
• Have understanding of networking fundamentals including:TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSLHTTP/S,, Load balancing, Reverse proxies, Routing
• Have experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers
• Understand modern API technologies including:RESTful API's, OAuth/JWT, API authentication and authorization
• Have experience with:API gatewaysIngress controllers, Reverse proxies, WAF/WAAP technologies
• Possess excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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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 $119,600 - $215,400/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.

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