Akamai
Do you love exploring and researching new technologies, attacks, and vulnerabilities?
Do you want the opportunity to become a security expert entrusted with managing technical security projects?
Join our Information Security Team!
Akamai’s Information Security team is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. You will have the opportunity to address global security challenges and make the Internet a safer place, powered by the scale of Akamai’s platform and influence
Shape Internet Security
In this role, you will perform research, assess risks and mitigations, design and build innovative solutions, create policies, and standards, and secure the world’s largest cloud provider and its customers.
As a Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Possessing comprehensive technical knowledge of our internal security tools
Configurating, documenting, analyzing security posture, providing recommendations, testing, deploying, debugging, raising issues, and feature requests
Assessing attack surfaces, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and risks
Collaborating with the cross-functional teams to plan, scope, lead, and create new technical solutions
Developing your/our knowledge and skills across the infosec realms
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have deep understanding of internet technologies including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, Proxies, OSI, IPv4/6, segmentation, and various servers/services
Have vast experience with public & private clouds and hypervisors security aspects
Demonstrate written, verbal, and presentation skills, including communicating complex technical content in English
Have experience in writing complex scripts, tools and services using one or more of the following languages: Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, Go, Rust
Have deep analytical abilities and a solid understanding of data structures and machine learning models.
Be proactive and passionate, help your colleagues, study, and ask questions
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.
what makes Akamai a great place to work
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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.
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!
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
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