Job Description
Do you have a passion for exploring new technologies, detecting threats, and leveraging machine learning to enhance security?
Are you interested in using Data Science to protect millions of people online?
Join our Information Security Team!
Akamai's Information Security team is responsible for safeguarding Akamai, its customers, and the Internet worldwide. You will have the opportunity to address global security challenges and make the Internet a safer place, powered by the scale of Akamai's platform and influence.
Shape Internet Security
You will explore cutting-edge technologies, develop machine learning models to predict and mitigate risks, and create security solutions. You'll be enhancing the security of our infrastructure, working on projects that shape the future of internet security.
Responsibilities
- Building dashboards and reporting data brought by security scanners and data sources.
- Assessing attack surfaces, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and risks using data-driven approaches.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to plan, scope, lead, and create new technical solutions.
- Building and experimenting with modeling and scoring algorithms. Development of algorithms and using tools based on machine learning, analytics, and statistical techniques.
- Working with stakeholders to understand business challenges and identify potential AI-driven solutions and industry use cases.
- Integrating and deploying AI models into existing systems and ensuring seamless deployment.
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have an excellent foundation in machine learning, statistics, and data analysis, building models to solve complex problems.
- Be skilled in Python, R, and familiarity with data science and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
- Use data gathering and presentation tools to visualize incoming data, e.g., Elastic PowerBI, Tableau etc.
- Understand key cybersecurity concepts including attack vectors, vulnerabilities, and risk assessment.
- Be proactive and analytical, and able to work independently supporting the security team in solving data-related security issues.
- Have a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and methods for processing datasets using SQL, Pandas, NumPy.
- Have exceptional analytical skills to interpret complex data and derive actionable insights.
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.
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!
