2 days ago
Seoul, Korea, SouthSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, product demonstrations, and solution delivery.
- Translate complex technical concepts into use cases for engineers, executives, customers, sales teams, and other stakeholders.
- Serve as the subject matter expert and technical point of contact for customer API security strategies and success.
- Educate sales teams and stakeholders on API security trends, threats, and best practices.
- Gather customer requirements and collaborate with product management and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs.
- Present Akamai’s API security vision and best practices at conferences, webinars, and customer workshops.
Requirements
- Eight years of experience in technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or a related cybersecurity or API field.
- Strong knowledge of APIs, API gateways, web application firewalls, and API security practices.
- Proficiency with TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, or Bash.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications.
- Fluency in spoken and written English and Korean.
- Strong presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Akamai supports employee health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.