Job Description
Key Skills: Akamai, Web Application Firewall (WAF), DevSecOps
nRoles and Responsibilities:
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- Act as a high-level specialist who independently drives bot detection and mitigation initiatives and escalates to management as the next step.n
- Analyze ecommerce fraud attack patterns and support mitigation strategies for credential stuffing/ATO, carding, scraping, scalping/inventory denial, and promo/gift card abuse.n
- Master telemetry and logging correlation across WAF/CDN logs and application logs to support investigations, detection improvements, and operational dashboards.n
- Build and refine detection logic using feature engineering and traffic baselining (normal vs anomaly) to improve coverage while reducing false positives.n
- Develop and maintain golden signals such as login failure rate, unique IPs per account, new device rate, checkout abandonment spikes, and 4xx/5xx patterns.n
- Apply deep understanding of HTTP and client behavior to interpret headers, cookies, caching, redirects, and TLS-related signals for bot identification and mitigation.n




- Engineer and tune edge/WAF/CDN rules and bot policies, including rate limiting strategies (global, per IP, per session, per account, per ASN) and challenge flows (JS challenge, CAPTCHA, proof-of-work style concepts).n
- Own allowlist/denylist governance, including how allowlists can be abused, and ensure secure operational controls.n
- Drive release discipline for mitigations using staged deployment (monitor alert soft block hard block) and validate impact through monitoring and alerting.n
- Support staged mitigation experiments (A/B testing) to protect conversion while improving security outcomes.n
- Collaborate closely with application teams, fraud, SRE, and security operations to continuously tune detection logic as attacker techniques evolve.n

nSkills Required:
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- Strong expertise in Akamai security solutions and WAF configurationsn
- Deep understanding of bot detection,

📌 Lead Cybersecurity Engineer (Tamil Nadu)
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📍 Tamil Nadu