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Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Security Compliance Specialist to translate security requirements into business and product terms. You will partner with security experts to manage compliance programs, engage auditors, and support audiences with clear governance documentation.
The role emphasizes independent work, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to prioritize workloads while collaborating across teams to advance governance and operational effectiveness.
The Security Compliance team collaborates with security experts to enhance Akamai's security posture and support customers' security needs. The team engages stakeholders to manage compliance programs tied to external standards. Staff liaises with auditors and consultants to convey Akamai's secure operations. Team members assist colleagues in understanding compliance and contributing to Akamai's adherence to standards.
Compliance Advisors contribute to Akamai's security audits. This role involves assessing vendor risks and explaining compliance measures.
As a Security Compliance Specialist, you will be responsible for:
Providing detailed analysis for compliance, including reports, presentations, assessing policies, and collaborating on cyber governance.
Investigating potential issues and developing potential solutions by working collaboratively with stakeholders.
Drafting governance documents supporting security initiatives and aligning with regulatory compliance requirements.
Working independently and comfortably in ambiguous or less well defined circumstances to develop clear analysis
Coordinating projects, supporting policy development, recommending updates, promoting awareness, seeking consensus, and providing guidance.
Advancing collaboration across teams, developing workflows, and establishing metrics for operational effectiveness.
To be successful in this role you will:
Possess 1-2 years of relevant professional experience, a Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication abilities effectively tailored to diverse audiences.
Demonstrate the capability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and effectively prioritize work to maximize productivity.
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:
Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
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.
We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
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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Akamai Technologies is an Affimative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.