Senior Technical Solutions Architect

Do you enjoy designing and building AI and GPU solutions for customers?

Do you enjoy working with a diverse multi-national team of engineering talents?

Join the Global GPU Strategic Pursuits team!

Akamai is building an innovative inference cloud that will change the way people and AI agents do their work. Akamai is uniquely positioned with the most distributed cloud and networking to reimagine the fast changing space.

Shape the future of the Internet

You'll play an integral part in the sales lifecycle, supporting Sales in defining Akamai AI Inference and GPU solutions. You'll architect new and custom projects with some of the worlds most innovative companies.

As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting Akamai Large Strategic GPU and AI inference projects.
• 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 AI inference and GPU offerings to support overall Akamai business growth.
• Designing large GPU clusters to meet customer AI Inference and training needs.

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 either Hyperscale or Neo Cloud
• 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 experience designing/developing/maintaining solutions leveraging open source/core software across load balancing, web services, databases, CI/CD, and observability.
• Demonstrate experience with Kubernetes and related containerization technologies, i.e. registries, container runtimes, container networking, and container storage.
• Demonstrate experience architecting complex GPU and AI workloads, including GPU clusters, for model training and execution.
• Demonstrate cloud basics across CLI tools, SDKs, and automation tools like Ansible, Salt, and Terraform.
• Be fluent in English

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