The Application Perimeter Security lead is a key member of the Enterprise Security Solutions team and is responsible for designing, documenting, implementing and governing Security controls on externally facing applications to meet corporate, legal and regulatory requirements. The APS Leader is also responsible for the creation and maintenance of the Cyber Assurance and IT Risk Management program documentation.

This position requires a strategic thinker with strong technology skills, collaboration abilities, detailed working knowledge of application security best practices, and expertise in implementing information security controls for maintaining compliance for a highly regulated business environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Work with development teams to customize and tune web application firewall, bot manager and other perimeter security controls as client applications are onboarded to Akamai

-Serve as subject matter expert to internal business and technology teams on range of Akamai products during BAU and incident-based activities

-Implement the Information Security policies, standards and controls for internet facing web and mobile applications

-Support status reporting by producing metrics and presentations for governance committee meetings

-Create Splunk dashboards and alerts to monitor deployments and address other use cases

-Identify opportunities to streamline/automate manually intensive processes

Basic Qualifications:

-Minimum 7 years Hands on experience in implementing perimeter security using Akamai products for web and mobile applications

-Minimum 3 years Hands-on experience in creation of dashboards and alerts using tools like Splunk

-Minimum 2 years Experience in designing and architecting modern web applications -Proven experience and success with managing IT and Information Security programs

-Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Education needed:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science.

Preferred:

-Proven experience with IT and information security best practices

-Demonstrated technical abilities across a broad range of technologies: Windows, Linux, firewalls, routers, mobile devices

-Familiarity with application development languages .NET, Java, JavaScript

-Proven project management and organizational skills, specifically managing multiple, concurrent projects

-Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

-Highly self-motivated and directed professional, with keen attention to detail

-Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities

-Strong customer service and solution-focused orientation