Senior Enterprise Security Architect

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology and ensuring customer success?

Do Software Defined Segmentation, AI and Zero Trust Security interest you?

Join our Enterprise Security Team!

Our Enterprise Security Group is responsible for developing and selling Enterprise Access, Microsegmentation, and Interaction Security (Akamai Workforce Protector, formerly LayerX) products, while helping customers safely adopt AI and SaaS by closing the visibility and control gaps that traditional network and endpoint security leave behind.

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As a Senior Enterprise Security Architect, you will sit at the heart of the sales process. You will be the technical evangelist supporting customers with the adoption of our products and services. You'll play a pivotal role in demonstrating the value of our solutions, helping to close the sale.

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

• Owning, shaping, and running proof-of-concepts, beta programs, and pre-sales activities with customers and partner teams
• Diving into enterprise architecture discovery and hands-on software configuration
• Strategizing with and assisting customers as they move to more agile, secure, identity centric security models
• Taking a consultative approach to solutions and solving challenges around next generation security transformation
• Educating and enabling internal teams and partners regarding our Enterprise solution portfolios to motivate effective sales strategies
• Influencing product roadmaps and ensuring the inclusion of business priorities and requirements of customers

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8-10 years of relevant pre-sales/solutions engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent
• Able to present complex, technical material to varying audiences (CISO through SOC/security architect), virtually and in-person, in both Korean and English
• Have knowledge of network security, SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, endpoint protection, firewalls, and general cybersecurity concepts
• Have expertise with Zero Trust concepts and technologies such as SASE/SSE, ZTNA, and Microsegmentation
• Understand the interaction security / AI governance landscape - GenAI DLP, shadow AI discovery and AI access control
• Speak credibly to extensions deployment and policy enforcement across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari (MDM/Group Policy rollout etc
• Have a good understanding of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and cloud-native technologies (microservices, Kubernetes)
• Be comfortable positioning against competitors such as secure enterprise browsers (Island, Prisma Access Browser/Talon, Seraphic)

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.

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