Product Support Engineer

Would you like to help make the new products supportable for the longer term?

Would you like to improve Akamai by developing ideas based on customer feedback?

Join our Product Support Team

Become a key technical contributor in a global expert team responsible for escalations of Akamai's Security Group.

Partner with the best

Provide advanced escalation and product support for the top of the line security products on the market. Including our unique Zero Trust Security platform. You will focus on a cutting-edge suite of services to ensure application and network performance.

As a Product Support Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting tier 3 technical support team with escalations and provide product knowledge expertise.
• Resolving issues that were unable to bring to resolution by lower support tiers
• Providing workarounds to mitigate product defects.
• Developing scripts for custom configurations and solutions
• Analyzing software issues and work closely with R&D and PM to prioritize and schedule their fixes.
• Contributing to knowledge base and technical competence by providing product and training to the team.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have degree in Computer Science or similar and 5+ years experience in a technical support position
• Have 3+ years as escalation engineer within L3/L4 support groups and support/services for cloud based solutions/SaaS solutions
• Have understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/S and DNS with the ability to troubleshoot with Wireshark, browser developer tools, Fiddler and log collectors - Kibana)
• Have experience working with a variety of authentication schemes including SAML, Kerberos, NTLM, OIDC and Oauth2.
• Have experience with on-prem hypervisors such as VMware and cloud-based IaaS platforms (Akamai Linode, AWS, Azure and GCE).
• Have experience with Linux systems, networking and Scripting (Python / API) and Familiarity with NGINX

This role engages with a team that supports 11:00 am to 7:00 pm CST, Meetings and engagement with the team typically take place during these hours. We welcome flexible workers and want applicants to be aware of the job's time zone requirements.

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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