Job Description

Would you enjoy working with cutting-edge web security systems?

Do you seek hands-on learning experiences on Web Security with a growing global team?

Join our highly skilled Security Professional Services team!

Our Team provides managed services and proactive and reactive support to our global customers. We utilize tools, process and knowledge to integrate and maintain Akamai security solutions for our clients. We collaborate to solve problems, innovate to provide creative solutions, and continuously improve for our customers.

Make an impact on the future of Internet Security!

Part of the Professional Services team, responsibilities include delivering, integrating, maintaining, and optimizing security solutions effectively. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure outcomes meet quality standards.

As a Security Architect II, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring seamless security and delivery by managing technical lifecycles, from initial setup, troubleshooting, and testing to production deployment.
• Designing the end-to-end lifecycle of customer configurations, incorporating CDN, WAF, API Security, Bot Management, and additional solutions for seamless delivery.
• Analyzing traffic and system architecture, and customizing security solutions to address and remediate security challenges.
• Managing and documenting technical issues, stakeholder responses, and requests to ensure information is consistently recorded and up to date across projects.
• Collaborating with cross-functional project teams to scope, set timelines, create technical solutions, and support ongoing implementations
• Leveraging automation through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Akamai CLI) and scripting (Python, Powershell) to streamline configurations and deployments where possible.
• Leveraging a robust technical toolkit like Web Developer Tools, Postman, cURL, and Burp Suite to validate, optimize, and troubleshoot workflows.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate 6+ years of experience in security technologies, processes, concepts, and formal education in computer science/engineering
• Demonstrate expertise in internet fundamentals, DNS, routing, HTTP, TCP, TLS certificate lifecycle, application security, and APIs.
• Be able to analyze web traffic, web architectures, and customize Akamai security solutions to answer customers' security issues
• Have expertise in OWASP, network security products, application firewalls, server, and client-side application architecture
• Demonstrate an automation-first approach, utilizing Terraform, Akamai CLI, and scripting, maintain an AI-forward mindset, continuously learning and adapting to AI-driven trends.
• Focus on delivering impactful results while clearly conveying complex technical information through exceptional communication and presentation skills.

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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