Enterprise Architect – API Security

🕒 May 18

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $119.6k - $215.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Akamai Technologies

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Media

Akamai Technologies is a global edge platform and cloud services company that delivers content delivery, edge computing, and security solutions. The company operates one of the world’s largest distributed networks to accelerate and protect web, media, and application traffic, offering products for content delivery, DDoS protection, API and app security, bot management, edge compute (serverless/edge functions), and AI inference at the edge. Akamai also provides enterprise-focused security services (zero trust, identity and access management, secure internet access) and cloud/AI infrastructure tools, and has recently expanded capabilities through acquisitions (for example LayerX) to add browser-based AI usage control.

📋 Description

• Designing and implement scalable Application and API Security architectures across enterprise environments • Partnering with customer engineering, DevOps, cloud, networking, and security teams to deploy and operationalize Akamai solutions • Troubleshooting complex issues involving: Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, Networking, API gateways, Authentication flows, Hybrid architectures, Distributed applications • Integrating Akamai API Security solutions with: Kubernetes platforms, API gateways, WAF/WAAP solutions, CDN architectures, SIEM and observability platforms, CI/CD pipelines • Analyzing API traffic and application behavior to identify: Misconfigurations, Authentication gaps, Performance bottlenecks • Developing enterprise architecture diagrams, integration patterns, deployment plans, and operational runbooks • Leading customer workshops, technical enablement sessions, and architectural reviews

🎯 Requirements

• Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent • 7+ years of technical engineering/architecture function in enterprise environments • 2+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as: Enterprise/Solutions Architect, Solutions/Platform/Site Reliability/Cloud Dev Sec Ops Engineering • Hands-on experience with: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux systems and with one or more major cloud platforms such as: AWS, Azure, GCP • Understanding of networking fundamentals including: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/S, Load balancing, Reverse proxies, Routing • Experience troubleshooting distributed cloud-native applications and debugging skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers • Understanding modern API technologies including: RESTful API's, OAuth/JWT, API authentication and authorization • Experience with: API gateways, Ingress controllers, Reverse proxies, WAF/WAAP technologies • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare • 401K savings plan • Company holidays • Vacation (in the form of PTO) • Sick time • Family friendly benefits including parental leave • Employee assistance program focusing on mental and financial wellness