Akamai WAF & AI Security Engineer — API & App Migration

Kaizen Technologies

Alpharetta (GA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Kaizen Technologies seeks an Akamai Engineer with WAF, AI security expertise in Alpharetta, GA or NYC. You will lead onboarding of internet-facing apps to Akamai WAF, coordinate DNS, load balancers, and QA teams, and drive policy tuning and incident response.

Responsibilities include testing, traffic cutovers, false positive analysis, and evolving security controls with vendors. Strong experience in AI/LLM protections is preferred.

Qualifications

10+ years of hands-on experience with Akamai WAF, API security, and enterprise web security.
Experience migrating applications to Akamai WAF, including DNS and load balancer coordination.
Familiarity with AI/LLM security concepts and enterprise-scale migrations.
Ability to coordinate testing, rollout plans, and incident response.

Responsibilities

Lead onboarding internet-facing apps to Akamai WAF and move from monitor to deny mode.
Coordinate testing, rollout, traffic cutovers, validation and rollback procedures.
Tune WAF policies and analyze false positives.
Review blocked requests and design compensating controls with application teams and vendors.
Evaluate Akamai AI security capabilities and threat detections.
Provide security architecture guidance on safe web architectures and API protections.
Conduct quarterly security reviews and platform upgrades to align with threat intelligence.

Skills

WAFs

API Security

AWS Application Migration

Tools

Akamai

Job description

Responsibilities include testing, traffic cutovers, false positive analysis, and evolving security controls with vendors. Strong experience in AI/LLM protections is preferred.

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