Job Description

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge web security platforms

Would you enjoy translating security compliance into business and product requirements

Join our global InfoSec Security Compliance Team!

Akamai's Information Security Team protects infrastructure and promotes security practices internally. The SecurityCompliance team collaborates across product and platform teams, ensuring systems align with safety and compliance requirements for customers and society.

Partner with the best

Compliance Specialists play a vital role in Akamai's security audits. As a Security Compliance Specialist II, responsibilities include analyzing compliance standards and explaining how Akamai's products and systems fulfill security requirements.

As a Security Compliance Specialist II, you will be responsible for:

Supporting security compliance initiatives to completion across APJ/EMEA.
Maintaining knowledge of security standards, monitoring advancements, and ensuring compliance.
Identifying systemic security gaps, assessing control effectiveness, and advising on risk exposure.
Providing management with insights on control weaknesses and designing strategic improvements.
Serving as an SME for audits, guiding risk management, and aligning cross-functional teams.
Communicating effectively while developing trusted relationships with stakeholders.

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 2 to 6 years of experience in IT security, risk management, cyber and or IT audit or related fields.
Demonstrate expertise in industry compliance standards such as PCI, SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST, IRAP, FedRAMP, and ISMAP knowledge.
Have a desire to improve information security and have a learning mindset.
Have negotiation skills to simplify complex regulations and align compliance with business goals.
Have experience with compliance software, GRC tools, and audit management systems.

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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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