Senior Security Engineer - Akamai & Edge Security Services

About This Role

This Senior Security Engineer role focuses on designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing security controls for enterprise web applications, APIs, and internet-facing services. The position provides senior technical expertise in Web Application Firewall (WAF), bot protection, DDoS mitigation, API security, DNS security, and certificate management, partnering with various teams to strengthen digital perimeter security and respond to threats.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Akamai security technologies, including WAF, Bot Manager Premier, Adaptive Security Engine, Client Reputation, Account Protector, DDoS protections, and related security services
• Administer Imperva Website Security capabilities, including security configuration, monitoring, data protection controls, and origin integrations
• Design and maintain security controls protecting web applications, APIs, and other internet-facing services
• Configure and tune managed and custom WAF protections, rate limiting, IP and geographic controls, ACLs, API protections, and custom security rules
• Develop and maintain bot mitigation controls using behavioral analysis, bot scoring, allow lists, denylists, and automated enforcement
• Investigate and mitigate DDoS attacks, credential stuffing, account takeover attempts, scraping, and other application-layer threats
• Analyze traffic, telemetry, and threat intelligence to improve protection while reducing false positives
• Monitor Akamai security telemetry, Splunk, Grafana, and related platforms for threats and anomalies
• Investigate and resolve security incidents and complex platform issues
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Provide technical escalation support for critical security events and production issues
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, networking, and security teams on application onboarding, troubleshooting, and security improvements
• Support integration of security controls into CI/CD and application delivery processes
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Support security automation, audit, compliance, and risk-management initiatives

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise web application, API, or edge security
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Akamai security technologies or comparable enterprise WAF and application-security platforms
• 3+ years of working knowledge of Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Bot management and DDoS mitigation, Web and API security, HTTP/HTTPS and TCP/IP, DNS and traffic management, SSL/TLS and certificate management, OWASP Top 10, and/or Linux-based environments
• 2+ years of experience analyzing security telemetry, identifying attack patterns, troubleshooting complex issues, and implementing effective countermeasures