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Job Description
Are you excited by the prospect of working with prestigious global brands?
Do you enjoy working with customers to solve complex technical problems?
Join our Micro-segmentation Support Team!
Our team boasts some of the most talented and experienced cyber security and data center experts in the field. We're always looking for new people to inspire us and make us better. We utilize tools, process, and knowledge to diagnose and resolve product, platform, and customer issues.
Collaborate with the best-known global brands
We are looking for a highly motivated, proactive, and knowledgeable engineer to join our customer support team. This is an opportunity for the right candidate to work with an innovative technology that is setting the ground to the way organizations protect their key applications and assets from advanced cyber threats.
As a Technical Support Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Leading investigations on Akamai's Guardicore Micro segmentation and Zero Trust product for customers.
- Learning and gaining in-depth experience in Micro-segmentation and zero trust network security.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with large enterprise customers, acting as their primary point of contact for technical inquiries and issues.
- Owning the problem resolution and collaborating with internal teams.
- Analyzing technical issues and proposing solutions to prevent issues.
- Working closely with Engineering teams on customer issues.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have extensive experience of providing technical solutions and support for enterprise customers.
- Have prior experience serving as an Escalation Engineer working with Support engineers, R&D and QA teams.
- Have knowledge of the following technologies: Linux Operating System (Mandatory), Windows Operating System (Mandatory), Basic Networking, Virtualization, Cloud Technologies, K8S, Databases (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostGreSQL)
- Have high availability and ability to cultivate a mindset focused on responsiveness.
- Have excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a customer-focused attitude and the ability to build and maintain professional relationships.
- Possess native Japanese competency with business level English, both spoken and written
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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