Senior Security Engineer – Akamai & Edge Security Services

As a Senior Security Engineer focused on Akamai and Edge Security Services, you will design, implement, administer, and optimize security controls that protect enterprise web applications, APIs, and internet-facing services. The role collaborates across application, cloud, infrastructure, network, and security teams and participates in a rotating on-call schedule.

• Administer and optimize Akamai security technologies, including WAF
  , Bot Manager Premier
  , Adaptive Security Engine
  , Client Reputation
  , Account Protector
  , DDoS protections
  , and related security services.
• Administer Imperva Website Security capabilities, including security configuration, monitoring, data protection controls, and origin integrations.
• Design and maintain security controls protecting web applications, APIs, and other internet-facing services.
• Configure and tune managed and custom WAF protections, including rate limiting, IP and geographic controls, ACLs, API protections, and custom security rules.
• Develop and maintain bot mitigation controls using behavioral analysis, bot scoring, allow lists, denylists, and automated enforcement.
• Investigate and mitigate DDoS attacks, credential stuffing, account takeover attempts, scraping, and other application-layer threats.
• Analyze traffic, telemetry, and threat intelligence to improve protection while reducing false positives.
• Monitor Akamai security telemetry and platforms such as Splunk and Grafana for threats and anomalies.
• Investigate and resolve security incidents and complex platform issues, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Provide technical escalation support for critical security events and production issues.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, networking, and security teams on application onboarding, troubleshooting, and security improvements.
• Support integration of security controls into CI/CD and application delivery processes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Support security automation, audit, compliance, and risk-management initiatives.

• Monitor Akamai security telemetry and related platforms, including Splunk and Grafana, for threats and anomalies.
• Investigate and resolve security incidents and complex platform issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Provide technical escalation support for critical security events and production issues.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise web application, API, or edge security.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Akamai security technologies or comparable enterprise WAF and application-security platforms.
• 3+ years of working knowledge across WAF, bot management and DDoS mitigation, web and API security, HTTP/HTTPS and TCP/IP, DNS and traffic management, SSL/TLS and certificate management, OWASP Top 10, and Linux-based environments.
• 2+ years of experience analyzing security telemetry, identifying attack patterns, troubleshooting complex issues, and implementing countermeasures.

• Experience with Akamai Bot Manager Premier, Adaptive Security Engine, Account Protector, Client Reputation, Site Shield, GTM, and CPS.
• Experience with Imperva Website Security.
• Experience with Splunk, Grafana, and enterprise security-monitoring platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud security, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD integration, APIs, and security automation.
• Experience protecting large-scale internet-facing applications and APIs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Akamai
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Bot Manager Premier
• Adaptive Security Engine
• Client Reputation
• Account Protector
• Imperva Website Security
• DDoS protections
• Splunk
• Grafana…