Security Consultant
Akamai · Posted Oct 28
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
Akamai's Professional Services team helps accelerate and protect the websites and digital experiences of major banks and financial institutions by bringing them onto the Akamai platform. As the customer-facing Financial Services team, it provides thought leadership, consulting and technical support through designing high quality web solutions and customer advocacy. This Security Consultant role acts as an end-to-end trusted advisor from pre-sales through integration and performance, delivering technical solutions and long-term web performance and security strategy for high-profile customers.
What you will do
- 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 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Have 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
- Be well versed in internet technologies like IP networks, DNS and routing, HTTP, TCP or web architecture
- Demonstrate expertise in Web Application security, Network security, API Security, SIEM, AI Security
- Demonstrate 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
- Be 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 and support
- FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, giving the choice to work from home, the office, or both (in the country advertised)
About Akamai
Akamai is a global cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network company that powers and protects digital experiences online. Its distributed edge platform optimizes web and application performance while providing robust enterprise security solutions. The company serves major global enterprises across various industries, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure and advanced threat mitigation.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $61.5M raised
- 2023-08-16Post Ipo Debt
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer & GM, Cloud Technology Group
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