Akamai Network Security

PwC; Hyderabad, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC in Hyderabad seeks an Akamai security engineer to manage and optimize CDN, caching, and WAF deployments. This role requires 5–7 years of hands-on Akamai experience and hands-on skills with onboarding applications and configuring properties.

You will work with the Akamai portal or APIs to deploy changes and monitor security postures. Key responsibilities include Kona Site Defender and Akamai Bot Manager usage, WAF tuning, false-positive analysis, rate-limit configuration, and production

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on Akamai experience.
• Experience onboarding applications and configuring properties on Akamai.
• Proficiency with Akamai Portal and APIs for deployments.

Responsibilities

• Strong hands-on experience with Akamai CDN, caching and WAF technologies.
• Experience onboarding applications, configuring properties and deploying changes through the Akamai portal or APIs.
• Experience with Kona Site Defender, including WAF monitoring, policy tuning, false-positive analysis and rate-limit configuration.
• Experience with Akamai Bot Manager, application security monitoring and ongoing production support.

Skills

Akamai CDN

WAF

Kona Site Defender

Akamai Bot Manager

Onboarding applications

Akamai Portal

Akamai APIs

Production support

Tools

Akamai Portal

Akamai APIs

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Strong hands-on experience with Akamai CDN, caching and WAF technologies.
• Experience onboarding applications, configuring properties and deploying changes through the Akamai portal or APIs.

• Experience with Kona Site Defender, including WAF monitoring, policy tuning, false-positive analysis and rate-limit configuration.
• Experience with Akamai Bot Manager, application security monitoring and ongoing production support.

Preferred candidate profile

5 to 7 years in Akamai