Akamai Security - Implementation Specialist

Work Location: Pune, India

Mode of work: Office Daily

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, strong 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.

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, Traffic Peak, Image and Video Manager Image Optimization, Edge DNS, Edge Workers, Bot Manager Premier, mPulse Lite, and Net Storage.

Akamai Security (WAAP, CDN, Edge DNS, and Bot Manager) certification is strongly preferred; relevant Akamai product certifications are desirable.

Job Description

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, Traffic Peak, Image and Video Manager Image Optimization, Edge DNS, Edge Workers, Bot Manager Premier, mPulse Lite, and Net Storage.

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 Edge Workers 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 Traffic Peak and mPulse Lite to provide actionable visibility into traffic patterns, application performance, and user-experience indicators.

Administer Net Storage 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, Edge Workers, 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 transparent 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

Traffic Peak

Image and Video Manager Image Optimization

Edge DNS

Edge Workers

Bot Manager Premier (web and mobile)

mPulse Lite

Net Storage

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

📌 Akamai Security Implementation Specialist (India)
🏢 Cyberidentitysolutions
📍 India