Sr. WAF (Akamai) Engineer - Akamai Tools Suite

Required Skills:

• Secret Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree + 5 years of related experience
• Web Application Firewall, including Akamai
• Akamai WAF, DDOS, Kona, etc.
• Firewall, IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus, etc.

Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Manage Akamai Technology Features, including Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS, Bot Manager, List Management, Luna Portal User Access Management, Account protector, Client Reputation, & Other Kona settings.
• Conduct technical review with Akamai and application teams on challenges during onboarding applications/services.
• Configure WAF/DDOS/Client Rep/Bot/Account Protector during the onboarding process for applications.
• Conduct onboarding assessment, alert only policy activation, traffic analysis, and production policy activation
• Arrange and conduct the technical review with Akamai and application teams on challenges during onboarding application/services
• Enable alert only policy for the requested hosts
• ITSM Incident management for Service Availability, Connectivity Issues, access issues, performance issues, troubleshooting requests.
• Review data in Akamai portal to help identify any security related events that are related to ongoing security incidents or issues such as WAF, DDoS or Platform related issues.
• Handling alerts or incident requests related to application layer attacks, abnormal malicious traffic, DDOS attacks, bot attacks, etc.
• Develop and create new reports.
• Monitor Akamai platform for health and availability. And provide Service Health Reporting
• Reporting on Akamai alerts to respective application teams for potential follow up.
• Ensure application tuning requirements are adhered to in regular cadence.
• Gather & Document & track progress of Akamai tuning requirements.

Last updated on Sep 2, 2024