Senior Remote Edge & Cloud Security Engineer

Aquent (United States); Van Buren Charter Township (MI); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent seeks a Senior Security Engineer specializing in Akamai Edge Security to lead defense during a major cloud migration to AWS. You will own Akamai App & API Protector (WAF) and BMP configurations across hybrid environments, acting as the subject matter expert during high-severity incidents.

Role emphasizes edge security architecture, incident response, and policy lifecycle management, with remote work from a US-based location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years configuring and troubleshooting Akamai WAF and Bot Manager Premier.
• Strong network analysis skills and SIEM tooling experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for incidents.

Responsibilities

• Edge Security Architecture: design, tune, and maintain Akamai WAF rules and bot detection.
• Cloud Migration Enablement: ensure policy parity during AWS migration and secure endpoints.
• Threat Mitigation & Incident Response: Tier-3 escalation for Layer 7 attacks and RCA.
• Policy Lifecycle Management: manage rule updates and staged deployments.
• Observability & Analytics: integrate Akamai logs with SIEM dashboards and reports.
• Documentation & Enablement: maintain runbooks and diagrams for teams.

Skills

Akamai Edge Security

Incident Response

AppSec / OWASP

Cloud & Hybrid Networking

Observability & Reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

Wireshark

cURL

Fiddler

Postman

Akamai CLI

Job description

Aquent seeks a Senior Security Engineer specializing in Akamai Edge Security to lead defense during a major cloud migration to AWS. You will own Akamai App & API Protector (WAF) and BMP configurations across hybrid environments, acting as the subject matter expert during high-severity incidents.

Role emphasizes edge security architecture, incident response, and policy lifecycle management, with remote work from a US-based location.