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Security Engineer with Akamai/WAF : Alpharetta, GA : Long-Term Contract

HAN IT Staffing Inc.Alpharetta, GA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 21, 2026

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Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Alpharetta, GA, United States
Posted
21 hours ago
SQLAWSOWASPDNSLLMWAF

Job Description

Hi,
I'd like you to take a look at a great new position we now have available! Your opinion would be valued with regards to this opening. I really appreciate sending an updated resume & the best number with the best time to reach you.
Role: Security Engineer with Akamai & WAF
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Job Requirements
  • Primary Skill : WAFs, API Security, AWS Application Migration
  • 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 controls 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, surg queue events, and application outages.
  • Coordinate with Akamai engineering resources and internal teams to identify root causes and corrective actions
  • 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

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Thanks & Regards
HAN IT
   STAFFING

Chigiri Rohith Reddy

Sr.Technical Recruiter

100 Wood Ave S, Suite 102, Iselin NJ, 08830

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