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Senior Enterprise Security Architect

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Albany, NY · FlexibleJob$120–215K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$120–215K/yr
Location
Albany, NYFlexible
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Enterprise Security Architect advises customers on API and Agent Security strategies and helps implement Akamai solutions. The role owns the technical sales lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through demonstrations and delivery, while serving as a customer-facing AI security expert. It also partners with sales, product, and engineering teams to align solutions with customer needs and improve the customer experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Agentic Security, nice to haveAPI Security, nice to haveAI Runtime Security, nice to haveNetwork Firewalls, nice to haveWAF, nice to haveCNAPP, nice to haveSecOps Tools, nice to haveSIEM/SOAR, nice to haveInternet Technologies, nice to haveTCP/IP, nice to haveDNS, nice to haveHTTP/HTTPS, nice to haveSSL/TLS, nice to haveRESTful APIs, nice to haveCloud Infrastructure, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveAzure, nice to haveGCP, nice to haveCloud-Native Architectures, nice to haveKubernetes, nice to haveContainerized Applications, nice to haveWritten English, nice to haveSpoken English, nice to havePresentation Skills, nice to have

Qualifications

12 Years Technical Presales Experience, nice to haveProficiency in English, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

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

Would you like to be a trusted advisor for cutting-edge API and Agent Security discovery, threat mitigation, posture management?

Join our Enterprise Security Solution Engineering Group!

You'll work with customers to address their evolving needs in API and Agent Security, implementing our solutions for maximum impact. Our customers rely on our platform to protect their most critical infrastructure and AI-driven workflows.

Partner with the best

You'll act as a subject matter expert in customers' API and Agent security strategies to ensure highest customer satisfaction.

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

  • Owning the technical sales lifecycle, including discovery, solution design, and delivery of compelling product demonstrations

  • Translating complex technical concepts into impactful use cases for diverse audiences, from technical engineers to C-level executives

  • Serving as the go-to expert on AI security for customers, internal teams, and partners

  • Taking a consultative approach to solutions and solving challenges around next generation security transformation

  • Acting as the technical point of contact for customers ensuring their success and satisfaction

  • Gathering customer requirements and work closely with product and engineering teams to align solutions to customer needs

  • Presenting Akamai's AI security vision and best practices at industry conferences, webinars, and customer workshops

  • Partnering with sales, product management, and engineering teams to drive alignment and continuously improve the customer experience

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Demonstrate expertise in Agentic Security, API and AI runtime security, network firewalls, WAF, CNAPP, and SecOps tools like SIEM/SOAR.

  • Have 12 years in a technical pre-sales, solution architecture, or related role in cybersecurity or API-related fields

  • Display proficiency in internet technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and RESTful APIs

  • Display familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native architectures

  • Have experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications

  • Demonstrate proficiency in written and spoken English

  • Possess good presentation skills to explain complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

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. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm\_source=akamai&utm\_medium=social&utm\_campaign=benefits)

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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 $119,600 - $215,400/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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,388 open Security Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–215K/yr
  • New York median$148–238K/yr54 salary ranges
  • US median$143–230K/yr1,198 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $168K, is 16% below the New York median midpoint ($199K) — in the middle half of Security Architect salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 60 open Security Architect jobs in New York and 1,388 across the US. 18% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Security Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,217 postings).
Education
235 of the 1,388 open Security Architect jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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