Akamai WAF Security Engineer
Core
Strengthen, extend, and standardize Akamai WAF protection for 100+ critical web applications hosted on-premise and in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Role type
Application Security Engineer (WAF Specialist)
Builds
Web application security policies and traffic analysis for a global supply chain group
Domain
Cybersecurity / Web Application Firewall / Cloud Security
Required skills
Akamai WAF (AAP, ASM, Malware Protection), OWASP Top 10, Layer 7 attacks, Reverse Proxies, DNS, PKI, SSL/TLS, Cloud Architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Preferred skills
Incident response, Runbook creation, CAB presentation
Technologies
Akamai, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Manage technical evaluation and DNS routing for application onboarding, analyze traffic patterns and tune WAF rules to reduce false positives, optimize group WAF policies and API Protector settings, monitor Level 7 alerts and support SecOps investigations, establish an industrialized integration process targeting 10 apps/month
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
