AI cyber security engineer 10+

Job Requirements p2c3tsts1. WAF Onboarding and Application MigrationLead onboarding internet-facing applications to Akamai WAF.? Work with applications, DNS, load balancer, proxy, firewall, and QA teams to migrate applications intomonitor/alert mode and ultimately deny mode.Coordinate testing, rollout plans, traffic cutovers, validation, and rollback procedures.WAF Policy Tuning and False Positive AnalysisAnalyze 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 SupportTroubleshoot 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 attestationmechanisms, and API-specific protections.Evaluate emerging Akamai AI security capabilities such as AI-powered detections, Firewall for AI, botidentification, and agentic AI protections.Security Event Monitoring and Threat AnalysisReview 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 UpgradesConduct 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 alignedwith current threat intelligence.Incident Response and TroubleshootingAssist 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 correctiveactionsSecurity Architecture and Design ConsultingAdvise application teams on secure web architectures, OWASP protections, API security, bot mitigationclient reputation controls, and DDoS protection.Incident response experiencePreferred ExperienceAI/LLM securityAkamai Firewall for AIEnterprise-scale migration experienceFinancial services experienceWork Experience 7-10Years