Are you excited about helping secure against the latest cyber attacks?
Are you an innovative, highly experienced leader when it comes to global Security Operations Centers?
Join our Information Security Team!
The Information Security team at Akamai is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. We are looking for a seasoned individual to lead our enterprise Global Security Operations Center.
Shape internet security
In this role, you will enhance, innovate, and lead the Akamai Global SOC functions and operations.The ideal candidate will have outstanding automation and a strategic vision on how to gather and analyze data across our vast platform to flag potentially malicious activity.
As a leading member of the security leadership team, you will:
Leading the Global Security Operations Center, managing team of security operations to identify and respond to threats
Building out global visibility into our systems and application, overseeing the collection of security telemetry for analysis and alerting
Developing and build threat hunting capabilities to help with threat identification, response, and prevention
Implementing updates and improvements to response processes and procedures. You will also oversee the orchestration and automation of security response activities
Serving as a partner with variou teams across the organization to understand the telemetry needed from across all of our production and corporate networks
Defining a strategic vision for monitoring and analysis of incidents to protect people, technology, and processes, and resolve escalation where necessary
Managing real-time monitoring and responses to incidents impacting Akamai and oversee post-mortem process, including investigation of root causes and business impact.
Providing guidance and leadership into the Information Security vision and strategy, industry developments and best practices
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Demonstrate strategic ability to design and implement complex technology solutions
Demonstrate the leadership ability to attract, recruit, and retain a diverse workforce of security experts
Possess an executive presence and the ability to manage partnerships with senior technical leaders, business stakeholders, and key vendors
Possess an empathetic and collaborative leadership style to support a dynamic team of dedicated professionals under a shared mission
Have experience building or leading a SOC for a large environment, on a global scale
Have experience with security technologies including network infrastructure, data protection, endpoint security, application security, enterprise logging,and forensics
Possess experience managing a threat-hunting capability
Have experience in applying advanced anomaly detection and machine-learning techniques to the security field
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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Working for you
At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:
Your health
Your finances
Your family
Your time at work
Your time pursuing other endeavors
Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
Join us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
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