[Hiring] Security Consultant @Akamai

Role Description

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating closely with an integrated account team to evaluate customer web architecture, delivering the best integration solution.
• Ensuring customer success by focusing on best practices, helping develop a long-term web performance and security strategy.
• Advocating product and posture best practices and espousing thought leadership.
• Collaborating cross-functionally to qualify requirements, manage scope, timeline, and risks to deliver high-quality service and ensure customer engagement.
• Partnering with Business Support, Sales, Engineering, Product Development, and Technical Support to resolve issues and configure ongoing changes.
• Identifying potential new product/service capabilities that could benefit customers.
• Participating in internal projects to contribute to best practices and to ensure continuous improvement of customer service delivery.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or its equivalent.
• Experience in a customer-facing role within the technology industry.
• Well versed in internet technologies like IP networks, DNS and routing, HTTP, TCP or web architecture.
• Demonstrated expertise in Web Application security, Network security, API Security, SIEM, AI Security.
• Knowledge of common OWASP top 10 and how they relate to internet service compromise or attacks.
• Exposed to Cloud infrastructure Technologies (Linode, AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Practical knowledge of Generative AI platforms, including Gemini and Co Pilot.
• Able to analyze customer's web traffic and demonstrate expertise to optimize the security posture.
• Exposed to scripting languages such as Python/PERL/JavaScript and the overall DevOps framework & web development languages.

Benefits

• Opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
• Benefits surrounding all aspects of your life, including:
• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors
• Benefit plan options designed to meet individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

Company Description

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, secure their digital and AI experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed computing 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.

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.