Job Description

Job Category: Information Security Engineer
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Are you passionate about detecting and responding to real-world threats in a complex security landscape?
Are you a dynamic security engineering professional with experience in global enterprise environments?
Join our Information Security team
Akamai's Information Security team is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. Akamai is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to drive infrastructure security improvements and respond to incidents.
Shape Internet Security
In this role, you will collaborate with industry-leading security experts on a global team.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Researching and staying updated on malware, vulnerabilities, delivery methods, and strategies for detection and response to advanced threats.
• Developing or implementing tooling to detect and respond to threats and improve team efficiency
• Triaging alerts and responding to incidents across a variety of endpoints, servers, and cloud infrastructure
• Interfacing with other teams, and driving improvements to our telemetry, detection, and response capabilities
• Designing and implementing monitors and alerts in SIEM for security operations consumption and response
• Performing network and application security evaluations to detect vulnerabilities while offering solutions and acting as a senior technical resource.

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

• 6-8 years of experience in Information Security, including incident response, intrusion detection, network, systems, and/or application security.
• Demonstrate scripting expertise and prior experience in developing or analyzing internet protocols and related technologies.
• Have proven experience with incident response in a cloud infrastructure environment
• Demonstrate broad and deep knowledge of the network security domain, including advanced TCP/IP and micro-segmentation concepts.
• Have solid knowledge of operating system internals (macOS, Linux, and/or Windows) and network fundamentals
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and passion for security and an awareness of new attacks and adversarial TTPs

Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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