Roles Responsibilities The Akamai Security - Implementation Specialist will lead the implementation, optimisation, onboarding, and post-deployment support of the customer’s Akamai security, delivery, observability, DNS, and storage product suite. The role requires expert hands-on experience with Akamai API Security and the licensed product portfolio, solid client engagement skills, and the ability to drive scalable, secure, and high-performance digital experiences.

The candidate will work closely with security, application, API, network, and infrastructure teams to onboard data sources into Akamai API Security; analyse and rationalise discovered API endpoints; conduct Technical Security Reviews (TSRs); and provide proactive operational support, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement across the Akamai platform.

Location: Pune, India

Mode of work: Hybrid

Qualification

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 8–10 years of overall cybersecurity or network-security experience, including 5+ years of hands-on work with Akamai solutions and at least 4 years implementing and operating API Security, WAAP, CDN/delivery, DNS, bot management, and edge services.
- Demonstrated implementation and operational experience with Akamai API Security, App API Protector with Advanced Security Management and Advanced Delivery, TrafficPeak, Image and Video Manager –
- Image Optimization, Edge DNS, EdgeWorkers, Bot Manager Premier, mPulse Lite, and NetStorage.
- Akamai Security (WAAP, CDN, Edge DNS, and Bot Manager) certification is strongly preferred; relevant Akamai product certifications are desirable.

Implementation Configuration

- Deploy, implement, configure, and optimise the customer’s Akamai product suite, including API Security, App API Protector with Advanced Security Management and Advanced Delivery, TrafficPeak, Image and Video Manager –
- Image Optimization, Edge DNS, EdgeWorkers, Bot Manager Premier, mPulse Lite, and NetStorage.
- Design, implement, and manage Akamai API Security, CDN/delivery, and content storage solutions to support high availability, secure delivery, and optimised digital performance.
- Configure and maintain Image and Video Manager –
- Image Optimization to improve image quality, format selection, caching efficiency, and page performance.
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain edge logic using EdgeWorkers to meet advanced application, API, security, and routing requirements.
- Administer and optimise Edge DNS, including DNS configuration, resilience, change control, and security-focused DNS operations.
- Configure and tune Bot Manager Premier for web and mobile applications to identify, classify,



and mitigate automated threats while minimising business impact.
- Implement and manage App API Protector policies, including WAF controls, API protection controls, Advanced Security Management features, and associated security configurations.
- Configure and support TrafficPeak and mPulse Lite to provide actionable visibility into traffic patterns, application performance, and user-experience indicators.
- Administer NetStorage configurations and support secure, resilient content storage and delivery workflows.

API Security Onboarding Endpoint Rationalisation
- Onboard and validate additional customer data sources into the Akamai API Security platform, building on the existing Akamai native connector integration.
- Analyse the API endpoints discovered through the native connector and establish a validated endpoint inventory aligned to the customer’s licensed capacity.
- Classify discovered APIs by business ownership, exposure, traffic, sensitivity of data processed, authentication profile, risk, and security relevance to identify endpoints requiring active security attention.
- Identify duplicate, deprecated, internal-only, low-risk, non-sensitive, test, and otherwise out-of-scope endpoints, and recommend defensible inclusion, exclusion, grouping, or remediation actions in accordance with the customer’s governance requirements.
- Work with application and security owners to confirm endpoint classification, resolve data-quality issues, reduce unnecessary endpoint volume, and prioritise high-risk APIs for protection and monitoring.
- Produce endpoint-rationalisation reports, decision records, and actionable recommendations that demonstrate progress toward the licensed API endpoint limit without compromising security coverage.

Technical Security Reviews Operational Assistance
- Conduct Technical Security Reviews (TSRs) across the Akamai product portfolio, assessing design, configuration, security controls, operational readiness, performance, and alignment with customer standards.
- Document TSR observations, prioritised risk findings, remediation recommendations, ownership, and target completion dates; track the closure of agreed actions with relevant stakeholders.
- Provide hands-on operational assistance and maintenance, including configuration hygiene, change support, policy tuning, certificate and DNS-related coordination, platform health checks,



and lifecycle management across the listed Akamai products.
- Perform troubleshooting, incident management, root-cause analysis, and policy optimisation across API Security, App API Protector, Bot Manager Premier, Edge DNS, EdgeWorkers, delivery, observability, and storage services.

Support Managed Services
- Act as the post-implementation support engineer for the Akamai product suite and provide remote L2/L3 support for security, delivery, DNS, API Security, observability, and storage services.
- Provide troubleshooting, configuration management, incident resolution, maintenance, and performance optimisation, with clear operational documentation and controlled change execution.
- Conduct incident response for P1 incidents, coordinate with customer and vendor teams, and ensure timely communication, containment, restoration, and post-incident follow-up.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Lead advisory sessions and working meetings with business, application, API, network, infrastructure, and security stakeholders.
- Act as a technical advocate, ensuring that Akamai implementations, TSR outcomes, API endpoint governance, and operational practices align with business and security objectives.
- Prepare clear reports on API discovery and rationalisation, traffic, security posture, TSR findings, operational health, incident trends, and optimisation outcomes.

Required Skills

- Expert hands-on experience with Akamai API Security, including data-source onboarding, API discovery analysis, endpoint inventory validation, risk-based classification, and endpoint rationalisation.
- Working hands-on expert knowledge of the following Akamai products:
- App API Protector with Advanced Security Management and Advanced Delivery
- TrafficPeak
- Image and Video Manager –
- Image Optimization
- Edge DNS
- EdgeWorkers
- Bot Manager Premier (web and mobile)
- mPulse Lite
- NetStorage
- Experience conducting Technical Security Reviews, interpreting security and operational findings, and producing remediation plans for Akamai-based environments.
- Strong practical knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, REST and web APIs, TLS, DNS, caching, web application architecture, API authentication and authorisation, bot mitigation, WAF controls, and core security concepts.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex performance, delivery, DNS, API-security, and web-security issues in enterprise environments.
- Experience delivering consulting, implementation, and managed services for enterprise clients, including operational maintenance and stakeholder coordination.
- Excellent written and verbal stakeholder communication, documentation, incident management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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