Security Consultant

Are you excited about working with cutting-edge web security systems?

Do you relish opportunities to create improvements for our customers?

Join our prestigious Government Services team

Akamai's Professional Services team collaborates with global organizations, ensuring seamless integration of web applications onto the Intelligent Platform for optimal performance. The Government Services team serves United States and Canadian agencies, including Civilian, Department of Defense, State, Local, and Education sectors. By leveraging advanced web acceleration and security technologies, we work to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Help us secure the internet for our customers

As a Security Consultant, serve as the main contact for security services, ensuring seamless integration and support for customers. Provide expert guidance in a dynamic field, implementing innovative solutions that help customers utilize Akamai's security products effectively to meet objectives.

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to understand customer use cases and tuning solutions to meet client needs
• Partnering with sales teams internally to fully understand customer business needs in order to ensure their success
• Participating on internal projects to contribute to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of solution delivery
• 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 High School Diploma or a Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Demonstrate experience with internet protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and TLS/SSL and how CDNs work
• Have relevant customer facing experience within a consultative environment
• Have achieved or be interested in obtaining cyber security credentials such as Security+, SSCP, GSEC or others
• Demonstrate knowledge of project management concepts and techniques
• Have knowledge of implementation concepts that deal with web development, IT systems or security practice

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!

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.

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