Would you enjoy working with the world's leading brands?
Do you love designing and selling innovative solutions to customers?
Join our Public Sector Pre-Sales team!
We work with world with large-scale government and regulated industries to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our platform.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will work with all the technologies Akamai has to offer. By partnering with engineering and business teams you will become the technical expert our customers rely on. Through building relationships with organizations, you will deliver innovative solutions that will impact millions of users.
As a Solutions Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for:
- Creating sales opportunities by managing the pre-sales technical process and demonstrating Akamai's technology to customers
- Managing the technical proposal process and ensuring all technical information and recommendations addressing customer requirements are accurate
- Tracking account activity for business analysis and reporting, designing technical solutions to meet our customer's needs.
- Leading sales activities such as Technical Demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs).
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have US citizenship, due to the nature of our client base
- Have 8 years of experience and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Have experience working in a customer-facing consulting, technical solutions pre-sales or post sales role
- Have background and experience in web acceleration, web security, infrastructure security technologies or cloud computing solutions
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, SSL protocols and Cloud Computing
- Be a customer advocate passionate about delivering technical solutions
- Be a team player, able to collaborate, prioritize, and solve problems in a fast changing environment
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
