Secure SDLC Architect: DevSecOps

Do you relish the prospect of building secure software at global scale? Do you love collaborating with developers and engineers to solve complex security challenges? Join our exceptional Product Security team! The Product Security team integrates security practices into Akamai's development lifecycle, addressing vulnerabilities before production to ensure secure software delivery. Collaborating with product, engineering, and infosec teams, the team drives risk-based remediation and develops scalable processes. These efforts safeguard customers and the business while supporting the creation of reliable, innovative solutions.

Make a difference to a vital part of our business This role involves collaborating with Akamai's product and engineering teams to strengthen our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (S-SDLC). You will apply your expertise to threat modeling, triaging security findings, working on triage agents, and guiding remediation within CI/CD workflows. By embedding security at scale, you will help ensure our applications meet the highest standards of reliability and trustworthiness.

As a Security Architect, You Will Be Responsible For

• Integrating security practices into the SSDLC across multiple product teams
• Performing threat modeling, design reviews, and secure code reviews
• Triaging and prioritizing findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and container security tools
• Creating, running, and improving agentic AI for triaging findings and remediation efforts.
• Partnering with developers and DevOps engineers to guide remediation and validate fixes
• Creating and maintaining security standards, developer guidelines, and policies
• Driving the integration of security tools into CI/CD pipelines and build workflows

Do What You Love To be successful in this role you will:

• Bring relevant of hands-on Product/Application Security experience
• Have proven expertise in SSDLC, secure design, and secure coding practices
• Be hands-on with SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, and container security tools
• Show expertise in secure AI implementation during software creation, developing and deploying agentic AI solutions for addressing security findings effectively.
• Possess working experience with GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Jira/ServiceNow, and CI/CD pipelines
• Understand cloud-native environments, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, and infosec teams

About Us At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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