Artificial Intelligence Engineer
imr softNew York, NY
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
imr softNew York, NY
yesterday
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IMR SOFT LLC is hiring for the experience candidate on Akamai with AI Engineer for Client. Akamai with AI Engineer
Location: NYC, NY / Alpharetta, GAJob Summary
We are seeking an experienced Akamai with AI Engineer with of Akamai experience to support enterprise-scale WAF onboarding, application migration, security policy tuning, API security, and AI/LLM security. The candidate will work closely with application, infrastructure, network, and security teams to protect internet-facing applications and improve security controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Akamai WAF onboarding and application migrations from monitor/alert mode to deny/mitigation mode.
- Configure and tune Akamai Kona Site Defender policies and analyze false positives.
- Manage Akamai Bot Manager, API Security, DDoS, and Client Reputation controls.
- Troubleshoot AI/LLM traffic, API requests, and WAF-triggered security events.
- Support AI Security / Firewall for AI capabilities and emerging agentic AI protections.
- Monitor and analyze WAF security events, attack patterns, and suspicious traffic.
- Perform incident response, production troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Apply OWASP Top 10 security principles and recommend web/API security improvements.
- Support application migration, DNS, load balancer, proxy, firewall, and traffic cutover activities.
- Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, security leadership, and Akamai engineering/product teams.
- Prepare security dashboards, metrics, reports, and executive status updates.
- Support quarterly WAF upgrades, policy reviews, security tuning, and technology roadmap initiatives.
- Mandatory SkillsAkamai experience
- Akamai Kona Site Defender
- Akamai Bot Manager
- Akamai API SecurityWAF Policy Tuning & False Positive AnalysisOWASP Top 10 Incident Response
- Web Application & API SecurityDDoS Protection & Threat Analysis
Preferred Skills:
- AI/LLM Security
- Akamai Firewall for AIAgentic AI Security
- Enterprise-scale Application Migration
- Financial Services / Banking Experience
- Security Architecture & Consulting
Ideal Candidate:
Strong Akamai WAF Engineer/Security Engineer with hands-on experience in Kona Site Defender, Bot Manager, API Security, and preferably AI/LLM security.
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JOB OVERVIEW
Experience level
Lead
Location
New York, NY
Occupation
Information Security Engineers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
yesterday
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