Job Description

Job Category: Solutions Engineering
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Do you enjoy designing and building public cloud solutions
for customers?
Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role responsible for sales growth?
Join the India Solutions Engineering team!
Akamai is working to simplify the way people work in the cloud. The team's mission is to accelerate innovation by making computing simple, scalable, accessible, and affordable for all. We provide the infrastructure and services that enable developers to build next generation applications.
Shape the future of the Internet
As Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer, you'll be key in defining Cloud/Linode solutions during presales. Guiding customers in strategic and technical Cloud transformation, you'll drive Linode service adoption and consumption. In addition, you'll also be the thought-leader in cloud computing both outside and within Akamai.
As a Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Driving Linode opportunities in India as a public cloud presales engineer leading technical sales. .
• Driving customer success and Linode adoption within the account team; cloud service delivery experience is beneficial.
• Leading solution innovation, promoting local tech trends, and shaping the product roadmap with global managers.
• Building technical thought leadership in Cloud Computing/Linode to drive Akamai's business growth.
• Leading Pre-Sales SME enablement groups on Linode and public cloud technology stack.

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8+ years in a customer-facing technical role with public cloud, consulting, hosting, or cloud software expertise.
• Demonstrate excellent experience in architecting complex IaaS solutions for customers.
• Possess two or more professional level certifications from AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle and/or CNCF.
• Demonstrate in-depth skills in atleast three of: Kubernetes, cloud networking, AI & GPU, IaC/CI/CD tooling, media streaming tech stack.
• Demonstrate hands-on skills in common open source softwares to replace hyperscalers proprietary managed services.
• Demonstrate skill of solving new technical and business problems, through active listening/clarifying, structured analytical and creative thinking.
• Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex technical content to technical and non-technical audiences

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.
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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.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
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.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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