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Our goal is to navigate an evolution within customers to a more secure, dynamic and agile infrastructure. This relates to our Zero Trust architectures. Collaborating with our enterprise sales, internal teams and our external Channel Partners is key for our Go-to-Market in the Gulf Region\nAbout the Team\nOur Enterprise Security team focuses on the development and selling of our Host based Network segmentation solution. Host based Network segmentation is key to protect customers against Ransomware threats in a changing hybrid I.T. environment. Our goal is to secure Enterprise environments with our agile solution.\nAs a Security Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for:\nDriving the Enterprise Security agenda internally and externally.\nBeing a leader in driving the Enterprise Security agenda internally and externally\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nHave experience leading high performance sales teams within a matrixed organization.\nHave direct sales experience and be able to demonstrate C level access and engagement.\nAble to work with our Channel Partners and continue successful collaboration.\nDemonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills.\nHave knowledge in: Micro-Segmentation (ex. 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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.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt 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.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. 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It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!","description_format":"text","description_chars":3264,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Arabic","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS)","CDN & Edge Delivery","Web Security & DDoS Protection"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T13:28:41Z"}],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.846,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-senior-security-sales-specialist-gulf","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-senior-security-sales-specialist-gulf.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T01:43:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1703,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3297,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}