Security Engineer – Edge & Cloud Security; Akamai​/AWS

Remote contract opportunity for a Senior Security Engineer focused on edge and cloud application protection during an enterprise migration to AWS. You will take ownership of the operational health, configuration, and fine-tuning of Akamai’s App & API Protector (WAF) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP), while partnering with AWS migration teams to maintain security and availability across transitional states.

Pay: USD 107 - 110 per hour.
Location: Remote (remote).
Experience: 5+ years.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

• Design, optimize, and maintain Akamai WAF rulesets, rate-limiting policies, and custom bot detection conditions aligned with application risk profiles.
• Collaborate with AWS migration teams on routing cutovers, ensuring policy parity between on-prem and cloud workloads, and safeguarding endpoints during migration transitions.
• Act as Tier-3 escalation during active Layer 7 attacks, automated scraping, credential stuffing, and zero-day exploit attempts, including rapid triage and post-incident root cause analyses (RCA).
• Define baseline evaluation methodologies for new rule updates, staging deployments, and proactive false-positive suppression.
• Integrate Akamai log streams (Data Stream, SIEM integration) with central logging solutions such as Splunk and Datadog to produce actionable threat dashboards and executive reporting.
• Maintain architectural diagrams, runbooks, and policy documentation to support operational handoffs and engineering execution.

• 5+ years hands-on Akamai Edge Security
  , including deploying, managing, and tuning Akamai Web Application Firewall (Kona / App & API Protector) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP) in high-traffic, multi-tenant enterprise environments.
• Proven ability tuning behavioral bot detections to mitigate Layer 7 DDoS and credential stuffing
  , while eliminating false positives without impacting user experience.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10
  , API security risks, HTTP/S protocol behaviors, and edge-based threat mitigation.
• Working knowledge of AWS networking and application architectures including ALBs, Cloud Front, Route 53, and VPCs, plus experience with how edge proxies integrate into hybrid routing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years directly configuring and troubleshooting Akamai WAF and Bot Manager Premier.
• Strong proficiency with network analysis and debugging tools such as Wireshark
  , cURL
  , Fiddler
  , and Postman
  , along with browser inspection for payload troubleshooting.
• Experience analyzing enterprise logs and working with SIEM tooling, including Splunk
  , Elastic
  , and Sentinel
  .
• Excellent verbal and written communication, comfortable advising software engineers and senior leadership during active incidents.

Akamai App & API Protector
, Akamai Web Application Firewall (Kona / App & API Protector), Akamai Bot Manager Premier (BMP), OWASP Top 10, AWS, ALBs, Cloud Front, Route 53, VPCs, HTTP/S, Data Stream, SIEM integration, Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Sentinel, Wireshark, cURL, Fiddler, Postman, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Akamai CLI, Akamai APIs, Google Web Application Penetration Testing (GWAPT), GIAC (GCIH, GWAPT).

• 5+ years hands-on Akamai Edge Security expertise with Akamai WAF (Kona / App & API Protector) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP) in high-traffic, multi-tenant enterprise architectures.
• Incident response and bot tuning experience, including Layer 7 DDoS and credential stuffing mitigation and false-positive reduction without degrading user experience.
• App Sec fundamentals: OWASP Top 10, API security risks, HTTP/S protocol behaviors, and edge threat mitigation.
• Cloud and hybrid networking knowledge covering AWS architectures (ALBs, Cloud Front, Route 53, VPCs) and edge proxy integration into hybrid cloud routing.

• Experience managing edge security through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Akamai CLI / APIs).
• Security engineering experience in financial services, e-commerce, or other regulated environments.
• Active security or cloud certifications, such as Akamai Certified Specialist, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CCSP, or GIAC (GWAPT, GCIH).