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Akamai Technologies, Inc. Senior II Security Analyst in Costa Rica
Do you enjoy exploring cyber security while keeping the organization Secure?
Are you excited about working with cutting-edge security systems?
Join Guardicore (now Akamai Enterprise Security Group)
Our Security Professional Services team helps protect some of the most well-known organizations around the world. We support our security and enterprise products (e.g. Zero Trust solutions, Web Application Firewall, anti-DDoS solutions, Bot Management).
Become a Security Subject Matter Expert
Join as a Senior II Security Analyst, central to Guardicore's R&D Security Team, safeguarding the platform we develop. Work closely with engineers to oversee real-time detection, response, and vulnerability management. Ensure findings translate into reduced risks. This role is ideal for those passionate about identifying threats, refining signals, and ensuring thorough remediation completion.
As a Senior II Security Analyst, you will be responsible for:
Running detection & response monitor SIEM/EDR telemetry, triage alerts, contain and eradicate threats, then lead root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
Enhancing signal quality by designing correlation searches, refining detection rules, and automating SOAR playbooks to reduce false positives and MTTR.
Analyzing vulnerabilities by extracting findings from platforms like Wiz, Vulcan, Grype, Tenable, and quantifying infrastructure impact to prioritize effectively.
Ensuring remediation governance by generating tickets, assigning owners, enforcing deadlines, and verifying resolutions through rescans and evidence collection thoroughly.
Creating visibility and KPIs by maintaining dashboards tracking vulnerabilities, remediation speed, SLA adherence, MTTR/MTTD, patch age, and risk trends.
Strengthening controls by mapping emerging TTPs to defenses, recommending new detections, and implementing safeguards across cloud, container, and on-prem environments.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have a High School Diploma - Bachelor's Diploma or its or equivalent
4+ years in Security Operations / SOC / Incident Response, handling live incidents and vulnerability remediation programs end-to-end.
Demonstrate expertise in SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/NGAV tools; create parsers, analytics, and automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Go.
Have experience designing vulnerability-management dashboards and SLA tracking for leadership transparency.
Demonstrate expertise in network protocols, Linux/Windows internals, and cloud telemetry (GCP or AWS) to adapt swiftly during investigations.
Demonstrate expertise with contemporary vulnerability-management tools and implement risk-based prioritization frameworks effectively.
Present metrics, incident summaries, and remediation roadmaps effectively to technical teams and leadership audiences.
Demonstrate extensive technical knowledge essential and required for the specified role.
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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Working for you
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.
Join us
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.
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