Senior II Security Researcher

Do you want to help shape the future of security of the Internet?

Are you skilled at analyzing systems across various abstraction levels and identifying flaws with a creative and problem-solving approach?

Come and join the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team!

You will explore new ideas, technologies, and techniques, learning them quickly through both theory and practical application. Responsibilities may include analyzing malware, investigating cyber campaigns, monitoring botnets, reviewing exploit logs, or contributing to intelligence pipelines. Expect to defend ideas with evidence and collaborate with peers. Opportunities include publishing research, media engagements, and presenting at renowned security conferences.

Partner with the best

Offer specialized support to evaluate, address, and reduce security risks, safeguarding systems, data, and processes. Partner with teams to create customized security approaches and apply effective methods. Strengthen organizational resilience by resolving vulnerabilities and improving security measures through creative solutions, ongoing enhancements, and advanced threat detection techniques.

As a Senior II Security Researcher you will be responsible for:

• Understanding current cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities thoroughly ensures effective identification and implementation of mitigation strategies.
• Developing LLM workflows and AI agents to process unstructured intelligence, analyze adversary behaviors, and enhance the threat intelligence platform.
• CVE/Vulnerability Assessment
• Researching emerging attack tools, techniques, and procedures while identifying effective strategies to safeguard against potential threats.
• Producing and presenting intelligence or research for use by internal security teams, customer security groups, and the broader security community.
• Developing research tools to facilitate the collection and analysis of intelligence derived from both internal and external sources.
• Collaborating with Security Architects, Researchers, and Software Engineers to enhance Akamai systems' resilience against pressure from adversaries.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate expertise in computer and network security, computer science, mathematics, or engineering.
• Demonstrate knowledge of penetration testing methodologies, techniques, tools, and their application in cybersecurity assessments and vulnerability identification.
• Understand security technologies, processes, and concepts comprehensively to ensure effective implementation and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Develop expertise in TCP, UDP, HTTP, and DNS protocols for effective network communication and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrate technical aptitude while maintaining enthusiasm for continuous learning and growth in skills and knowledge acquisition.
• Understand cybercrime, cyberwarfare, underground networks, and associated groups involved in these activities comprehensively and effectively.
• Conduct dark web research and uncover indicators.

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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