Akamai Engineer

Tasks

• Lead onboarding and migration of internet-facing applications to Akamai WAF.
• Manage WAF policies, analyze false positives, and fine-tune security rules.
• Migrate applications from monitoring/alert mode to deny/block mode.
• Troubleshoot production incidents involving WAF, DNS, proxies, load balancers, traffic routing, and application availability.
• Monitor and analyze WAF, Bot Manager, DDoS, Client Reputation, and API Security events.
• Implement security controls aligned with OWASP standards and API security best practices.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, QA, and security teams to ensure successful migrations and production stability.
• Support quarterly security reviews, policy upgrades, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Akamai WAF.
• Experience with application onboarding, migration, and policy tuning.
• Expertise in false-positive analysis and production troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of DNS, proxies, load balancers, firewalls, and traffic cutovers.
• Experience with API security, bot mitigation, and DDoS protection.
• Understanding of OWASP web application security controls.
• Preferred: Experience with AI/LLM security and Akamai Firewall for AI.
• Preferred: Enterprise-scale application migration experience.
• Preferred: Financial services or banking industry experience.
• Preferred: Strong incident response and security architecture consulting skills.

Schedule

• Contract

How to apply

• Share your updated resume with relevant Akamai WAF experience, current location, availability, and contract expectations.

Location

• New York, NY