Security Consultant

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge cloud security systems?

Would providing consultancy to influence customers' Internet strategies excite you?

Join our prestigious Professional Services team

Our Team provides managed services and proactive and reactive support to our global customers. We utilize tools, process and knowledge to integrate and maintain Akamai security, media, and performance solutions for our clients. We collaborate to solve problems, innovate to provide creative solutions and work to continuously improve for our customers and our team.

Partner with the best

As a Security Consultant, you'll be the primary security services contact, ensuring the successful integration and support of customers on our platform. Acting as a trusted consultant in this growing and high-profile area, you'll learn and implement creative solutions helping customers leverage Akamai's security products and achieve desired outcomes.

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring customer success by understanding requirements, leveraging best practices and offering consulting services that meet customer needs
• Collaborating with integrated account team to evaluate customer web architecture, develop and deliver long-term security strategy and cloud solutions
• Working with security experts to solve technical problems, demonstrating Akamai's value, and communicating effectively with all audiences
• Participating in training and projects contributing to best practices, maximizing efficiency, and improving methodology and service quality

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent.
• Have excellent communication skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers
• Show experience in a customer-facing role within the information technology industry
• Be familiar with security technology, process and concepts, security event management, or security compliance
• Demonstrate knowledge of project management concepts and techniques
• Have some knowledge of implementation concepts that deal with web development, IT systems or security practice

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

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

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Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from CA$70,600 - CA$127,000/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.