Do you thrive in high-stakes environments and lead with calm precision?
Do you excel in addressing emerging threats, developing skilled cyber defence teams, and advancing incident response strategies?
Join our Infosec Security Incident Response Leadership Team
Come join the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT)! Where you will lead a team of security researchers and intelligence analysts while serving as a strategic authority on cyber threat intelligence, adversary tradecraft, and emerging global threats.
Partner with the best
The Senior Manager, Threat Intelligence & Research is responsible for leading high-impact threat intelligence initiatives, advanced investigations, and strategic incident response efforts across Akamai's global security platform.
You will operate at the intersection of real-world adversary activity, global Internet telemetry, and critical customer incidents, providing strategic insight that informs product development, security operations, and Akamai's role as a trusted authority in cybersecurity.
As a Manager Senior Information Security, you will be responsible for:
- Leading and mentoring a team of threat intelligence analysts and security researchers
- Defining research priorities and intelligence strategy aligned with Akamai's security mission
- Driving cross-functional collaboration across security operations, product engineering, and executive leadership
- Translating complex threat intelligence into actionable insights for customers, product teams, and leadership
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.
- Have 5-7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with experience focused on threat research and in a leadership role
- Have a deep understanding of Cyber Threat Intelligence including threat actor analysis, OSINT collection and analysis, Intelligence lifecycle management etc
- Have technical background in network protocols and internet-scale architectures, web applications & API security, DDOS mitigation, bot management and access control,
About us
At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
