Product Security Architect — AI & Cloud

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Sick time

Parental leave

ESPP

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Security Architect for our Product Security team. You will enhance the security of Akamai's products by collaborating with development teams to design secure systems and embed security into the development lifecycle.

In this global role, you will lead security-focused design reviews, guide remediation of issues, and act as a subject matter expert during incidents. You will also help shape AI security integration and ensure compliance across products.

Qualifications

• Have experience in security architecture in a large, global environment (identifying architectural security weaknesses at the application, OS, and network level).
• Be current with the latest security technologies, attack techniques, and vulnerabilities.
• Know how to remediate common vulnerabilities and be able to propose custom solutions based on application architecture and implementation.
• Demonstrate breadth of security knowledge across specialties such as cloud security, network security, cryptography, etc.
• Have experience with threat modeling or hazard-analysis frameworks such as STAMP, STRIDE, etc.
• Be able to communicate and collaborate well with a worldwide team, including being able to describe complex security terms to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Performing security-focused design reviews of applications, systems and networks across a wide range of products, including security, CDN and cloud computing.
• Partnering with development and infrastructure teams across the organization to assist with remediation of identified issues.
• Working collaboratively with product development teams on secure design and development choices.
• Providing guidance and answering questions about security practices.
• Serving as a subject matter expert during incidents and remediation projects.
• Identifying the appropriate tools and processes for ensuring that products are meeting security and compliance requirements.
• Integrating responsible use of AI into your workflow and ensuring that the company's use both internally and its products, are secured.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Incident response

Cloud security

Networking security

Cryptography

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Security Architect for our Product Security team. You will enhance the security of Akamai's products by collaborating with development teams to design secure systems and embed security into the development lifecycle.

In this global role, you will lead security-focused design reviews, guide remediation of issues, and act as a subject matter expert during incidents. You will also help shape AI security integration and ensure compliance across products.