Security Architect II

Are you excited by the prospect of detecting and mitigating the latest cyber attacks?

Would you enjoy protecting the world's leading brands in a fast-paced environment?

Work with industry leading technology

Our Team strives to be the most trusted support services partner and to keep our customers online businesses up and running. We utilize tools, process and knowledge to diagnose and resolve product, platform, and customer issues. Our team delivers managed services for both media and security to proactively maintain quality and protect our customers' online presence.

Respond to cyber attacks in real time

As a Security Architect II in SOCC, advising on mitigating attacks for managed security clients. Protect critical web applications and APIs for enterprises, including banks and e-commerce. Identify cyber threats using data, strategize mitigations, and deploy solutions. Ensure minimal impact on end users while addressing real-time security concerns.

As a Security Architect II, you will be responsible for:

• Devising and engaging mitigation strategies to prevent real-time attacks, using Akamai products & platform
• Conducting advanced analysis to identify attacks and threats targeting digital properties, web applications, and APIs.
• Providing consultation & attack mitigation strategies to customers or peer teams based on the analysis

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have +5 years of experience and a High School / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent
• Have familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks, Streamlit, or Dash for rapid prototyping
• Understand REST APIs, parse JSON, fetch scan data, utilize Python, and apply SQL effectively.
• Have experience with Git and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, GitHub) and clustering (esp. for anomaly detection
• Demonstrate expertise in Python, SQL, and foundational statistics, including mean, median, mode, and correlation.
• Understand protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, OWASP top 10, and their relation to internet security risks.
• Understand common attack preventive security techniques on L7

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running ap