Security Architect II

A Security Architect II role at Akamai focusing on detecting and mitigating cyber attacks, protecting web applications and APIs for enterprise clients, and advising on security strategies.

Location: Costa Rica

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.

Additional Information

• Position based in Costa Rica.
• Role involves real-time cyber attack response and security analysis.