Senior Enterprise Security Architect

Location: Korea, Republic of; Remote

Would you like to empower organizations to protect their API Ecosystems?

Would you like to be a trusted advisor for cutting-edge API discovery, threat mitigation and posture management?

Join our Enterprise Security Solution Engineering Group!

You'll work with customers to address their needs in API Security, implementing our solutions for maximum impact. Our customers rely on our platform for some of their most critical infrastructure.

Partner with the best

You'll act as a subject matter expert in customers' API security strategies to ensure highest customer satisfaction.

As a Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations
• Translating complex technical concepts into impactful use cases for diverse audiences, from technical engineers to C-level executives
• Serving as the go-to expert on API security for customers, internal teams, and partners
• Educating sales teams and other stakeholders on API security trends, threats, and best practices
• Acting as the technical point of contact for customers ensuring their success and satisfaction
• Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs
• Presenting Akamai's API security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops
• Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have excellent knowledge of APIs, API gateways, web application firewalls (WAF), and API security practices
• Have 8 years in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields
• Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs
• Possess hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Bash
• Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures
• Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications
• Demonstrate proficiency in both spoken and written English and Korean
• Possess good presentation skills to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!

You’ll act as a subject matter expert in customers' API security strategies to ensure highest customer satisfaction.