Senior Security Architect, Compliance & Controls

Akamai Career Site; United States; On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai's Security Compliance and Customer Trust Team is seeking a Senior Lead Security Architect to help shape the security of the internet. You will evaluate cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements.

You translate requirements into technical specifications, guardrails, and architecture blueprints, support control assessments and audits, and collaborate with engineering and InfoSec to remediate risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience assessing security in cloud systems, Internet technologies, infrastructure, applications, and data governance.
• Expertise in PCI DSS requirements, control assessment, and audit support.
• Proven experience designing security architectures and control frameworks for distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements.
• Translate requirements into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails.
• Support compliance programs, control assessments, and audits using Akamai's common control framework.
• Work with engineering and InfoSec to investigate security risks and define remediation.
• Improve adoption and monitoring of security controls through AI and automation.

Skills

Security architecture

Compliance audit

Cloud security

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Akamai's Security Compliance and Customer Trust Team is seeking a Senior Lead Security Architect to help shape the security of the internet. You will evaluate cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements.

You translate requirements into technical specifications, guardrails, and architecture blueprints, support control assessments and audits, and collaborate with engineering and InfoSec to remediate risks.