Akamai Security Engineer (WAF)

Tasks

• Lead application onboarding and migration to Akamai WAF, including monitor and deny modes.
• Tune WAF policies and investigate false positives while minimizing business impact.
• Analyze WAF, Bot Manager, DDoS, Client Reputation, and API Security events.
• Support AI/LLM traffic security, API protections, and emerging Akamai AI security capabilities.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, traffic-routing issues, latency, and application outages.
• Conduct quarterly WAF policy reviews, platform upgrades, and security assessments.
• Apply OWASP Top 10 protections, API security best practices, and bot mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, QA, and security teams.
• Coordinate with Akamai engineering teams on complex issues and product enhancements.
• Maintain security dashboards and report on WAF adoption, deny-mode coverage, and threat mitigation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on Akamai experience
• Akamai Kona Site Defender
• Akamai Bot Manager
• Akamai API Security
• OWASP Top 10
• Security incident response
• WAF onboarding, policy tuning, and false-positive analysis

How to apply

• Send the resume by email.

Location

• New York City, NY / Alpharetta, GA