Akamai Engineer - Alpharetta, GA

Job Title : Akamai Engineer

Primary Skill : WAFs, API Security, AWS Application Migration

Experience : 10 years

Job Description :

WAF Onboarding and Application Migration

• Lead onboarding internet-facing applications to Akamai WAF.? Work with applications, DNS, load balancer, proxy, firewall, and QA teams to migrate applications into monitor/alert mode and ultimately deny mode.
• Coordinate testing, rollout plans, traffic cutovers, validation, and rollback procedures.
• WAF Policy Tuning and False Positive Analysis Analyze production traffic and WAF events to identify false positives.
• Tune security policies to reduce business impact while maintaining strong protection.
• Review blocked requests, investigate application behavior, and create narrowly scoped exceptions , LLM, and API Security Support Troubleshoot AI- and LLM-related traffic that triggers WAF protections such as SQL injection contrls work with application teams and vendors to design compensating controls, header-based attestation mechanisms, and API-specific protections.
• Evaluate emerging Akamai AI security capabilities such as AI-powered detections, Firewall for AI, bot identification, and agentic AI protections.
• Security Event Monitoring and Threat Analysis Review WAF, Bot Manager, DDoS, Client Reputation, and API Security events.
• Analyze attack patterns and determine whether activity is malicious or legitimate.
• Recommend policy improvements and mitigations based on observed threats.
• Quarterly Security Reviews and Platform Upgrades
• Conduct structured reviews of applications protected by Akamai.
• Evaluate opportunities to move applications from monitoring to mitigation mode.
• Perform quarterly WAF upgrades, policy reviews, and security-control tuning to keep protections aligned with current threat intelligence.
• Incident Response and Troubleshooting Assist with production incidents where application behavior changes after WAF enablement.
• Investigate latency issues, traffic-routing problems, load-balancer interactions, client IP handling, surgqueue events, and application outages.
• Coordinate with Akamai engineering resources and internal teams to identify root causes and correctiveactions
• Security Architecture and Design Consulting Advise application teams on secure web architectures, OWASP protections, API security, bot mitigation client reputation controls, and DDoS protection.
• Incident response experience

Preferred Experience

• AI/LLM security Akamai Firewall for AI Enterprise-scale migration experience Financial services experience Work Experience 7-10Years