Cyber Security Researcher II

Job Description

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Are you a security researcher who enjoys identifying vulnerabilities to help organizations stay safe?

Join Akamai Guardicore (Enterprise Security Group)

Akamai Hunt, within Akamai's Enterprise Security Group, focuses on advanced detection, threat intelligence, and research. The mission involves identifying stealth threats, creating new detection methods, and enhancing network and cloud defenses for global organizations. Powered by extensive data visibility across hybrid environments, the team specializes in threat hunting and research. Enthusiasts of uncovering hidden patterns and transforming insights into actionable detections will thrive here.

Join Hunt Research Team!

The Security Researcher role involves developing detection methods and techniques to identify emerging threats for Akamai customers. Collaboration with researchers, data engineers, and product teams is essential to convert threat intelligence into actionable analytics. The position emphasizes hands-on work, research-focused tasks, and teamwork to address real-world security challenges effectively.

In This Role You Will Be

• Designing, building, and validating new detections across large-scale customer and cloud telemetry, transforming threat research into impactful results.
• Developing AI-powered techniques to improve detection precision, prioritization, and automated investigative functionalities effectively.
• Analyzing various data sources like forensics, Active Directory, network, and cloud to identify threats and anomalies.
• Collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and researchers to implement detection methods and enhance accuracy, scalability, and resilience.
• Leading key research initiatives and proofs-of-concept, shaping Hunt's detection and analytics platform's strategic direction in hybrid and cloud-native environments.
• Translating investigations into clear recommendations while communicating insights and findings effectively to customers.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity research, detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response (including military experience).
• Have hands-on experience in developing, testing, and tuning detections based on attacker behavior or system telemetry.
• Have a solid understanding of networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, SMB, HTTP/S, etc.) and their application in cloud environments.
• Be familiar with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and the MITRE ATT&CK framework (including Cloud TTPs).
• Demonstrate programming skills in Python and SQL with experience analyzing large datasets using common tools.
• Have a curious, team-oriented mindset and an interest in applying AI and automation to cybersecurity detection.
  
  

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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Benefits

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.

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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.