Senior Security Engineer
India · Senior
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Do you enjoy collaborating with engineers and architects to shape products for billions of online users?
Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Join our team
The Application Security Team works with Development, Product, Support, and Sales Engineering teams to ensure secure, high-quality products for customers.
Partner with the best
Seeking a Senior Security Engineer to provide technical expertise and collaborate with engineering teams, embedding security in cloud solutions. This role involves safeguarding enterprise applications while fostering a security-focused culture. Success requires guiding individuals, refining processes, and leveraging technical skills to ensure comprehensive protection and alignment across systems and teams.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Governing the vulnerability management lifecycle by overseeing processes, tooling, and remediation efforts across all engineering teams.
- Automating workflows and processes to reduce developer friction, toil, and manual overhead across daily security operations.
- Collaborating with GRC and Engineering teams to ensure compliance with industry security standards and regulatory frameworks.
- Partnering closely with development and infrastructure teams to identify and remediate critical security issues and vulnerabilities.
- Implementing comprehensive SSDLC practicesImplementing comprehensive Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) practices to strengthen security throughout the entire development process.
- Mitigating vulnerabilities and security weaknesses in code and infrastructure through partnership with operations and engineering teams.
- Serving as a lead security subject matter expert during incident response efforts and customer security escalations.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 5+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- Demonstrate capability to collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional engineering and DevOps teams, fostering a cooperative security-focused culture.
- Work within contemporary cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Linode, leveraging expertise in these environments effectively.
- Demonstrate expertise in industry compliance standards such as FedRAMP, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOC2.
- Gain experience configuring and operating core security testing tools, including SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, and CSPM in enterprise SSDLC pipelines.
- Demonstrate expertise in at least one programming language such as C, Java, Golang, Python, or JavaScript.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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