Job Summary
The Akamai Engineer will lead application onboarding and migration to Akamai Web Application Firewall (WAF), transitioning applications from monitoring mode to blocking or deny mode. This role involves configuring and optimizing WAF policies, analyzing security events, troubleshooting application and traffic-related issues, and supporting API security, bot management, and DDoS protection. The engineer will collaborate with application, network, DNS, firewall, and QA teams to ensure secure deployments, minimize false positives, maintain application availability, and strengthen web and API security.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead application onboarding and migration to Akamai WAF, transitioning applications from monitoring mode to blocking or deny mode.
• Configure and tune WAF policies to minimize false positives while maintaining strong security controls.
• Analyze WAF events, security alerts, and attack patterns to identify and investigate malicious traffic.
• Troubleshoot WAF-related application issues, traffic routing, load balancers, latency, and production outages.
• Support API Security, Bot Manager, DDoS Protection, and Client Reputation controls.
• Collaborate with application, network, DNS, firewall, and QA teams on testing, deployment, and traffic cutovers.
• Conduct periodic security reviews, WAF upgrades, and policy optimization.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation of security issues.
• Advise application teams on OWASP protections, secure web architecture, and API security.
Required Qualifications
• Experience with Akamai WAF configuration, application onboarding, migration, and policy tuning.
• Understanding of WAF security events, attack patterns, and false-positive analysis.
• Experience troubleshooting application security issues, traffic routing, load balancers, latency, and production outages.
• Knowledge of API security, bot management, DDoS protection, and web application security principles.
• Ability to collaborate with application, network, DNS, firewall, and QA teams during testing and deployment.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with AI/LLM security and Akamai Firewall for AI.
• Enterprise-scale WAF migration experience.
• Experience in the financial services industry.
