18 hours ago
Remote, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Investigate complex cyberattacks to identify adversary behaviors and strengthen customer defenses.
- Design, build, monitor, and maintain production-grade detection code and scalable security data pipelines.
- Triage high-severity incidents, present investigation findings, and provide advanced technical support to customers.
- Analyze AI-generated detections and collaborate with researchers to improve detection effectiveness.
- Apply threat intelligence to identify tactical shifts and enhance defensive coverage.
- Translate threat intelligence into automated defenses using scripting and APIs.
- Deliver customer-specific security solutions and explain AI-driven security insights.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams to maintain operational continuity and share knowledge.
Requirements
- 5+ years of cybersecurity experience spanning security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments.
- Ability to correlate diverse telemetry, investigate threats, and disrupt adversary activity independently.
- Proficiency writing robust Python code for scalable security data pipelines and detection systems.
- Experience using scripting and APIs to automate security defenses.
- Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and operating system internals.
- Experience applying AI and machine learning to anomaly detection, threat mitigation, or detection workflows.
- Ability to advise customers technically and clearly communicate complex security findings.
- Strong collaboration skills for working with research and globally distributed teams.
Benefits
- Health, well-being, financial, and broader life benefits.
- Flexible work arrangement through Akamai FlexBase, including working from home, in an office, or a combination of both.
About Akamai
Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.