Security Engineer – Edge & Cloud Security (Akamai / AWS) [214103]

Skill; United States; Remote; USD 147,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Cybersecurity Jobs is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a remote contract focused on edge and cloud protection during an enterprise migration to AWS. You will own Akamai App & API Protector WAF and Bot Manager Premier, while partnering with migration teams to maintain security and availability.

Responsibilities include designing WAF rules, tuning bot detections, coordinating routing cutovers, and leading Tier-3 incident response for Layer 7 attacks, with logging integration to Splunk and

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Akamai Edge Security experience.
• Proven ability tuning bot detections and mitigating Layer 7 threats.
• Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10 and API security risks.
• Experience with AWS networking and edge integration in hybrid routing.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Cybersecurity, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and maintain Akamai WAF rulesets and bot detection policy.
• Collaborate with AWS migration teams on routing cutovers and policy parity.
• Act as Tier-3 escalation during Layer 7 attacks and incidents with rapid RCA.
• Define evaluation methods for rule updates, staging, and false-positive suppression.
• Integrate Akamai data streams with Splunk/Datadog for threat dashboards.

Skills

Akamai Edge Security

Incident response

Bot tuning

OWASP Top 10

Network analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Akamai WAF

Akamai BMP

Splunk

Datadog

Elastic

Sentinel

Wireshark

cURL

Fiddler

Postman

Terraform

Akamai CLI

Job description

Remote contract opportunity for a Senior Security Engineer focused on edge and cloud application protection during an enterprise migration to AWS. You will take ownership of the operational health, configuration, and fine-tuning of Akamai’s App & API Protector (WAF) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP), while partnering with AWS migration teams to maintain security and availability across transitional states.

Pay: USD 107 - 110 per hour. Location: Remote (remote). Experience: 5+ years. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, and maintain Akamai WAF rulesets, rate-limiting policies, and custom bot detection conditions aligned with application risk profiles.
• Collaborate with AWS migration teams on routing cutovers, ensuring policy parity between on-prem and cloud workloads, and safeguarding endpoints during migration transitions.
• Act as Tier-3 escalation during active Layer 7 attacks, automated scraping, credential stuffing, and zero-day exploit attempts, including rapid triage and post-incident root cause analyses (RCA).
• Define baseline evaluation methodologies for new rule updates, staging deployments, and proactive false-positive suppression.
• Integrate Akamai log streams (DataStream, SIEM integration) with central logging solutions such as Splunk and Datadog to produce actionable threat dashboards and executive reporting.
• Maintain architectural diagrams, runbooks, and policy documentation to support operational handoffs and engineering execution.

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on Akamai Edge Security, including deploying, managing, and tuning Akamai Web Application Firewall (Kona / App & API Protector) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP) in high-traffic, multi-tenant enterprise environments.
• Proven ability tuning behavioral bot detections to mitigate Layer 7 DDoS and credential stuffing, while eliminating false positives without impacting user experience.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, API security risks, HTTP/S protocol behaviors, and edge-based threat mitigation.
• Working knowledge of AWS networking and application architectures including ALBs, CloudFront, Route 53, and VPCs, plus experience with how edge proxies integrate into hybrid routing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years directly configuring and troubleshooting Akamai WAF and Bot Manager Premier.
• Strong proficiency with network analysis and debugging tools such as Wireshark, cURL, Fiddler, and Postman, along with browser inspection for payload troubleshooting.
• Experience analyzing enterprise logs and working with SIEM tooling, including Splunk, Elastic, and Sentinel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, comfortable advising software engineers and senior leadership during active incidents.

Technologies

Akamai App & API Protector, Akamai Web Application Firewall (Kona / App & API Protector), Akamai Bot Manager Premier (BMP), OWASP Top 10, AWS, ALBs, CloudFront, Route 53, VPCs, HTTP/S, DataStream, SIEM integration, Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Sentinel, Wireshark, cURL, Fiddler, Postman, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Akamai CLI, Akamai APIs, Google Web Application Penetration Testing (GWAPT), GIAC (GCIH, GWAPT).

Core Must-Haves

• 5+ years hands-on Akamai Edge Security expertise with Akamai WAF (Kona / App & API Protector) and Bot Manager Premier (BMP) in high-traffic, multi-tenant enterprise architectures.
• Incident response and bot tuning experience, including Layer 7 DDoS and credential stuffing mitigation and false-positive reduction without degrading user experience.
• AppSec fundamentals: OWASP Top 10, API security risks, HTTP/S protocol behaviors, and edge threat mitigation.
• Cloud and hybrid networking knowledge covering AWS architectures (ALBs, CloudFront, Route 53, VPCs) and edge proxy integration into hybrid cloud routing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing edge security through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Akamai CLI / APIs).
• Security engineering experience in financial services, e-commerce, or other regulated environments.
• Active security or cloud certifications, such as Akamai Certified Specialist, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CCSP, or GIAC (GWAPT, GCIH).