La plupart sont des grands comptes français et européens couvrant les domaines des médias, industrie, banque/assurance ou encore e-commerce.

Désolé le speech est en anglais (société américaine oblige) mais n’hésitez pas à me consulter en privé si vous souhaitez plus d’informations.

Overview:

About Akamai

Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai’s services have been adopted by the world’s most recognized brands across diverse industries. Since its start in 1998, Akamai has grown from a research “big idea” into one of the world’s most successful technology companies, with 2008 revenue of more than $790 million, consistent profitability, and inclusion as a NASDAQ 100 company. With more than 1,600 employees in locations around the globe, Akamai is committed to innovation in technology and service. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. Akamai – Powering a Better Internet.

Responsibilities

About the Team

The Professional Services team works with Akamai’s customers to design and implement solutions that maximize return on investment, reduce risk, and optimize their online initiatives. The team employs some of the foremost Internet experts to solve complex infrastructure, content delivery, and application performance challenges, always with a mind to our customer’s business strategy. We’ve implemented solutions for over 2,000 customers in the private and public sectors – like FedEx, Yahoo, the Department of Defense, and many others.

About the Job

Technical Project Managers are part of our Professional Services team and work directly with Akamai’s largest and most strategic clients to deliver solutions. As a TPM, you will lead and manage the integration of customers’ web sites with the Akamai network.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in full customer life-cycle, from pre-sales, through implementation to post-implementation support
• Interact with sales team and the customer during the pre-sales cycle to provide implementation scope and estimates, create proposals and Statements of Work, and conduct trials.
• Own customer implementation projects, including providing full project management, creation and maintenance of implementation documentation and tracking timelines and deliverables.
• Perform basic technical implementation tasks, such as customer configuration updates.
• Provide technical ownership of long-term customer relationships.
• Work closely with Account Management, Sales, Engineering, Product Development and Customer Care to resolve issues that arise during customer trials or integrations.
• Identify new product features and additional sales opportunities during trials and integrations and communicate to product development and engineering teams.
• Participate in internal projects that help scale the group, implement best practices, and improve methodology.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Overall Experience: 4-6 years or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of experience with IT solution delivery experience within a consulting organization or equivalent experience
• 2-5 years of experience with a customer facing environment such as Sales Engineering or Technical Account Management or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years of experience with project lead experience with a proven track record of successfully delivering projects for Fortune 500 customers; experience working on and managing enterprise scale J2EE projects or equivalent experience
• Project Management experience (PMP or Big 5 experience a plus)
• Detailed knowledge of Internet technologies, thorough understanding of eCommerce, On-line Marketing, Web Analytics and Security
• Implementation experience with and web delivery services
• Experience in one or more web development languages, methodologies, and/or architectures – J2EE, HTTP, DNS, .NET, C#, JSP, ASP, Tomcat, Apache
• Must possess excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
• Must be enthusiastic, action oriented, capable of independently solving complex technical problems and able to communicate clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences
• Must be willing to travel 10%
• Fluent French and English a must

Desired Qualifications

• Masters Degree in MIS/CS a plus
• Working knowledge of the full software development technologies including J2EE/Java, .NET, open source tools and various component models (CORBA, COM, Java Beans)
• Experience developing and driving Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategies within large enterprises
• Experience with the impacts of Content Delivery and Distributed Computing within business and technical organizations
• Experience delivering streaming technologies (Windows Media, Macromedia Flash, Real/Helix, Apple QuickTime) in the enterprise or B2C, including encoding, server technologies, client and server playlists/metafiles, custom media player creation, DRM, ad insertion, subscription services, or pay-per-view
• Experience in Data Warehousing, Real Time Reporting and Analytics a plus

Other Information

• Is relocation available for this position: No
• Is US Citizenship required: No
• Is a Security Clearance Required: No

If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Contact us!

If you’re excited by Akamai and would like to help change the online landscape please apply.

Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.

• Les Smashing Pumkins suivent le mouvement Radiohead en proposant le téléchargement gratuit de leur prochain album
• Adobe a racheté Omniture. Intéressant virage de la société qui du coup élargit sa stratégie
• OVH et 1&1 vont avoir de la concurrence : l’américain GoDaddy débarque en Europe
• La chaîne de télévision internationale France 24 a discrètement publié l’URL de son player HD beta fonctionnant avec Silverlight
• Enfin, petit teaser pour mercredi… Akamai va annoncer de jolies choses dans le domaine de la vidéo en ligne, à suivre…

Avec certains évènements récents réunissant jusqu’à 10 millions d’internautes-téléspectateurs, Sagan compare l’évolution et la maturité de la vidéo en ligne à la mise en place des chaînes câblées à péage aux Etats-Unis il n’y pas si longtemps.

Si on remonte un peu plus loin dans le temps, on arrive en 1969  et on découvre l’extraordinaire anticipation de Jean D’Arcy. Je vous laisse découvrir ces 2 minutes absolument époustouflante remise dans leur contexte.

Cliquer ici pour voir la vidéo.

• La vidéo originale archivée à l’INA : Internet l’anticipation
• Contentinople : Akamai CEO: Online Video Has Reached a ‘Tipping Point’

• Le format Windows Media est étonnament le seul format retenu. Aucun des sites n’utilisant la technologie Flash Streaming d’Adobe
• Les débits vont de 250 Kbits/s (sur TF1.fr qui a relevé le débit 400 Kbits/s durant la diffusion) à 850 Kbits/s (pour Canal+)
• Pas de Silverlight, toutes les grandes chaînes avait choisies d’embarquer le plugin Windows Media Player dans leur page web

Ailleurs, la diffusion du live sur le site officiel américain a montré un flux de bonne qualité : je n’ai pas mesuré, j’estime le débit du flux à 500 Kbits/s. J’ai par ailleur noté la présence d’un lien vers une version simplifié du player pour Linux qui fonctionnait d’ailleurs très bien avec Windows.

Coté expérimentation HD web, malgré l’annonce de l’Eurovision quelques jours auparavant, les chaînes ont été timides. Seule Sky News en Angleterre semble avoir expérimenté un flux grimpant jusqu’à 2,4 Mbits/s. En arrière plan, c’est la technologie MoveNetwork qui avait été choisie. Pour accéder au flux, il suffisait de remplir les conditions pour installer le plugin compatible PC/Windows et Mac OS X.

Player Skynews HD pour la diffusion de l'investiture de Barrack Obama

Enfin pour ce qui est de la bande passante générale, quelques informations circulent. Akamai affichait sur son site un pic à 6 millions d’internautes simultanés regardant les flux live. Le site Xconomy.com en dis un peu plus long sur cet évènement qui est probablement celui qui a généré le plus de trafic sur Internet depuis sa création.

Update : Une analyse du trafic video live aux Etats-Unis (merci Manu pour le lien)