Senior Security Architect

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 team

Our Professional Services team supports major organizations to help make the internet work for them by successfully integrating their websites onto our platform. Supporting our security and enterprise products we work as part of an integrated team to deliver consultative services and architect optimum solutions.

Make an impact on future of Internet Security

Security Architects, part of the Akamai Professional Services team. Work directly with clients to deliver Akamai's solutions. You will be involved with projects from design through implementation, testing and customer sign-off.

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

• Owning the technical aspects of integration (configuration, debugging, documentation, testing, go-live) of our Security Solutions
• Analyzing customer traffic as well as systems and customizing Akamai security solutions to answer customers' security issues
• Working with customers to identify and solve complex problems that arise as part of integration and support.
• Leading and developing the team through training, coaching and mentoring.
• Collaborating with cross-functional project team to scope, set timelines, create technical solutions, and support the ongoing implementation
• Participating in ongoing training initiatives to develop your skills

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field or its equivalent.
• Be able to demonstrate experience with Bots, WAF, Incident Management, Attack Analysis and Mitigation
• Have experience as a Penetration Tester or Security Architect or Network Security Engineer or similar industry field
• Have great knowledge of OWASP, network security products, network/application firewalls, server and client-side application architecture and understanding of internet technologies like HTTP, HTTPS & DNS
• Have good communication and collaboration skills and be an accountable member of the team

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.

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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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