Senior Security Engineer: Cloud & AI Security Lead

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to assess and mitigate security risks across applications, systems, and platforms. You will collaborate with IT and engineering, delivering design guidance and deploying risk controls in a fast-paced environment.

Candidate will work on evolving adversarial techniques, compliance activities, and security automation, with opportunities to leverage AI to improve processes and tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant security experience.
• Proven experience with network security analysis or intrusion management.
• Experience with malware and vulnerability identification and mitigation.
• Experience identifying software and application compromises and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with the secure deployment and usage of infrastructure-as-a-service.
• Demonstrate experience in a FedRAMP and/or CMMC certified environment.

Responsibilities

• Researching adversarial techniques, emerging vulnerabilities, and related detection and response strategies.
• Conducting network, application and system security assessments to identify risks and provide mitigation strategies.
• Assisting with design and deployment of security risk mitigating controls.
• Performing compliance and policy-based investigations of internal systems.
• Documenting security guidelines, procedures, and policies with emphasis on NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171.
• Providing security guidance and consultation to Akamai business units.
• Leveraging emerging AI capabilities to enhance processes and automation.
• Developing scripts and tools to support the above functions.

Skills

Network security analysis

Intrusion management

Malware identification

Vulnerability mitigation

IaaS security

FedRAMP/CMMC

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai Technologies is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to assess and mitigate security risks across applications, systems, and platforms. You will collaborate with IT and engineering, delivering design guidance and deploying risk controls in a fast-paced environment.

Candidate will work on evolving adversarial techniques, compliance activities, and security automation, with opportunities to leverage AI to improve processes and tooling.