Artificial Intelligence Engineer

IMR SOFT LLC is hiring for the experience candidate on Akamai with AI Engineer

for Client.

Akamai with AI Engineer

Location: NYC, NY / Alpharetta, GA

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Akamai with AI Engineer with of Akamai experience to support enterprise-scale WAF onboarding, application migration, security policy tuning, API security, and AI/LLM security. The candidate will work closely with application, infrastructure, network, and security teams to protect internet-facing applications and improve security controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Akamai WAF onboarding and application migrations from monitor/alert mode to deny/mitigation mode.


• Configure and tune Akamai Kona Site Defender policies and analyze false positives.


• Manage Akamai Bot Manager, API Security, DDoS, and Client Reputation controls.


• Troubleshoot AI/LLM traffic, API requests, and WAF-triggered security events.


• Support AI Security / Firewall for AI capabilities and emerging agentic AI protections.


• Monitor and analyze WAF security events, attack patterns, and suspicious traffic.


• Perform incident response, production troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.


• Apply OWASP Top 10 security principles and recommend web/API security improvements.


• Support application migration, DNS, load balancer, proxy, firewall, and traffic cutover activities.


• Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, security leadership, and Akamai engineering/product teams.


• Prepare security dashboards, metrics, reports, and executive status updates.


• Support quarterly WAF upgrades, policy reviews, security tuning, and technology roadmap initiatives.

Mandatory Skills

• Akamai experience


• Akamai Kona Site Defender


• Akamai Bot Manager


• Akamai API Security


• WAF Policy Tuning & False Positive Analysis


• OWASP Top 10


• Incident Response


• Web Application & API Security


• DDoS Protection & Threat Analysis

Preferred Skills

• AI/LLM Security


• Akamai Firewall for AI


• Agentic AI Security


• Enterprise-scale Application Migration


• Financial Services / Banking Experience


• Security Architecture & Consulting

Ideal Candidate: Strong Akamai WAF Engineer/Security Engineer with hands-on experience in Kona Site Defender, Bot Manager, API Security, and preferably AI/LLM security.