Senior Security Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Investigate intricate cyber-attacks to reveal adversary behaviors and enhance customer defenses.

• Design and oversee production-grade code for novel detection methodologies across extensive telemetry.

• Manage high-severity incidents, convey investigation outcomes, and offer advanced technical assistance to clients.

• Evaluate AI-generated detections and collaborate with researchers to continually improve their efficiency.

• Utilize actionable Threat Intelligence to identify tactical changes and proactively boost defensive measures.

• Collaborate closely with globally distributed teams to ensure uninterrupted operational continuity and knowledge sharing.

• Act as the technical liaison between security research advancements and worldwide engineering operations.

• Provide top-tier human support for Akamai ExAR during advanced security investigations and critical situations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, encompassing security engineering, cloud-native architectures, XDR platforms, and SOC environments.

• Capability to independently correlate varied telemetry and disrupt threat actors.

• Proficiency in writing robust code, such as Python, to construct, monitor, and maintain modern, scalable security data pipelines.

• Advanced or Fluent English proficiency.

• Experience in translating threat intelligence into automated defenses using advanced scripting and APIs.

• In-depth knowledge of attacker TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, network protocols, and OS internals.

• Ability to leverage AI and machine learning to detect anomalies, mitigate active threats, and streamline complex detection workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits covering health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.

• Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program: options to work from home, in an office, or a hybrid of both.