Security Architect (Night Shift)

Akamai Technologies; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health & wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Security Architect to join our Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) in Bengaluru. You will engage in critical network events and real-time cyber-attack responses for managed security customers, identifying threats and deploying mitigations using Akamai products and platform.

You will communicate with customers, update on mitigation results, and drive tooling development while advocating customer-centric approaches during incidents.

Qualifications

• 3 years relevant industry experience in networking, Akamai Platform, or Web application Security.
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork abilities.
• Willingness to learn new tools and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Devising and engaging mitigation strategies to prevent real time attacks, using Akamai products & platform.
• Performing advanced analysis to identify attacks and threats to customer's digital properties and/or their business network.
• Communicating with customers regarding challenges and providing updates and results on your mitigation and analysis.
• Innovating around tooling development & product enhancement.
• Being a good advocate to customer centricity during day-to-day operations & incidents

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Akamai Platform

Web application Security

Customer facing

Job description

Job Description

Are you excited by the prospect of detecting and mitigating the latest cyber attacks?

Would you enjoy protecting the world's leading brands in a fast paced learning environment?

Join our world class Security Operations Command Center

Akamai's industry-leading Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) protects various enterprises. We hand hold our security customers against real-time cyber-attacks and cyber-terrorism on daily basis. Partnering with other technical teams we detect and mitigate ongoing attacks, helping enterprises protect their online presence. We are the world leader in DDoS, web application and bot-based attack mitigation.

Job Description

Are you excited by the prospect of detecting and mitigating the latest cyber attacks?

Would you enjoy protecting the world's leading brands in a fast paced learning environment?

Join our world class Security Operations Command Center

Akamai's industry-leading Security Operations Command Center (SOCC) protects various enterprises. We hand hold our security customers against real-time cyber-attacks and cyber-terrorism on daily basis. Partnering with other technical teams we detect and mitigate ongoing attacks, helping enterprises protect their online presence. We are the world leader in DDoS, web application and bot-based attack mitigation.

Respond to cyber attacks in real time

As Security Architect, you'll engage in critical network and attack-related events for Akamai's managed security customers. Help identify real time cyber-attacks, strategize & deploy mitigations while neutralizing adverse impact to the end users.

As a Security Architect , you will be responsible for:

• Devising and engaging mitigation strategies to prevent real time attacks, using Akamai products & platform
• Performing advanced analysis to identify attacks and threats to customer's digital properties and/or their business network
• Communicating with customers regarding challenges and providing updates and results on your mitigation and analysis
• Innovating around tooling development & product enhancement.
• Being a good advocate to customer centricity during day-to-day operations & incidents

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 3 years relevant industry experience on primarily networking OR Akamai Platform OR Web application Security. Excellent in Customer facing Role.
• Have an in-depth understanding of networking fundamentals; Basic networking, TCP, IP, UDP.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how the internet works, including, DNS. HTTP, Suite of IP Protocols
• Understand OWASP Top 10 and their relation to internet service compromises and attacks.
• Need to demonstrate excellent verbal & written communication skills and excellent collaboration & team work.
• Have passion and ability to learn new tools and technologies and problem solving.

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.

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