Akamai Lead Analyst - 100% Remote - CG

Remote Full-time
Role: Akamai Lead Analyst

Locations: 100% Remote

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Job Description:
• Should be able to perform following activity as part of an assignment.
• Traffic Analysis: Act as the primary investigator for global traffic patterns. You will distinguish between organic ""human shoppers, legitimate search crawlers, and malicious actors.
• Configuration & Validation: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of Akamai ION (delivery) and WAF (security) rules. This includes configuring changes, deploying to Akamai Staging, and performing rigorous regression testing to ensure ""Buy buttons and ""Store Locators remain functional.
• Edge Logic: Implement edge-side redirects and caching strategies to reduce the load on the origin servers during heavy retail promotions.
• The Performance Data Analyst (RUM Data Analytics) - mPulse Insights: Go beyond ""up or down monitoring. You will use mPulse to analyze Real User Monitoring data, identifying how site speed .
• Bottleneck Detection: Investigate ""long-tail latency issues. You ll be responsible for identifying if a slowdown is caused by third-party marketing tags, slow API calls, or unoptimized image assets.
• Mpulse data Reporting: Translate technical performance metrics into business-friendly reports for stakeholders .
• The Security & Bot Defender
• WAF Management: Continuously tune Web Application Firewall rules to block SQL injections and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) without creating ""false positives for real customers.
• Bot Mitigation: In the retail context, you will lead the fight against advanced bots that try to make site unstable .
• Attack Investigation: During an attack, you are the ""First Responder, along with Akamai managed Security support team and analyzing Akamai Security Monitor logs towering with Akamai SOC team to implement real-time blocks or rate-limiting *** custom rules ..etc.
• Observability: Analyzing the requests logs using observability tools like SPLUNK..etc.
• Akamai alerts (Edge alerts or High volumetric / denied triggers) - Investigations & fixes
• Akamai alerts (Edge alerts or High volumetric / denied triggers) - Investigations & fixes
• CR Executions / Co-ordinating with Akamai for same
• CR Executions / Co-ordinating with Akamai for same
• Configuration changes / testing / 301 redirect , SSL implementations and bot attack analysis
• Configuration changes / testing / 301 redirect , SSL implementations and bot attack analysis
• DNS changes
• Site Shield changes
• Image optimization requests

In compliance with the salary transparency law, the expected pay range for this role is $55 $65/hr. Actual compensation depends on experience and interview evaluation.

("Akamai" OR "Akamai CDN" OR "Akamai ION" OR "Akamai WAF" OR "Akamai Bot Manager" OR "Akamai mPulse" OR "Akamai Edge" OR "Akamai Kona" OR "Akamai Site Shield") AND ("WAF" OR "Web Application Firewall" OR "CDN" OR "Edge Computing" OR "Edge Security") AND ("Traffic Analysis" OR "RUM" OR "Real User Monitoring" OR "Performance Analysis" OR "mPulse") AND ("Bot Mitigation" OR "Bot Management" OR "DDoS" OR "Security Analysis" OR "Threat Analysis") AND ("Splunk" OR "Log Analysis" OR "Observability" OR "Monitoring") AND ("DNS" OR "SSL" OR "TLS" OR "Redirects" OR "301 Redirect") AND ("Akamai Engineer" OR "Akamai Analyst" OR "CDN Engineer" OR "Edge Security Engineer" OR "Akamai Consultant")

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