Senior Security Platform Engineer Security (Akamai Security)

at  Sun Life

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Security Content Platform Leadership: Serve as the subject matter expert for Akamai’s security products, including Web Application Firewall (WAF), Kona Site Defender, Bot Manager, and Prolexic DDoS protection.
• Architect and Optimize: Design and implement scalable and secure architectures for web applications using Akamai’s security solutions. Continuously tune and enhance Akamai configurations for optimal security and performance.
• Threat Detection & Response: Lead the monitoring, identification, and mitigation of real-time security threats, including bot attacks, DDoS campaigns, and web-based exploits. Develop response playbooks and automated remediation workflows.
• Custom Rule Development: Oversee the development and fine-tuning of custom rules and policies for Akamai WAF, tailoring security controls to evolving threats while maintaining application performance.
• Security Automation: Lead efforts to automate security processes and policy management using tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash). Implement automation for the continuous deployment of security updates.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a liaison between security, DevOps, application development, and infrastructure teams to align Akamai security solutions with business requirements and performance objectives.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and security team members, sharing best practices and driving continuous improvement in security operations
• Incident Management & Forensics: Lead post-incident investigations, ensuring root cause analysis is performed, lessons are learned, and appropriate remediation steps are taken.
• Reporting & Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR) through robust security configurations and reporting mechanisms. Prepare and deliver detailed security metrics and reports to senior leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on the latest web security threats, Akamai product advancements, and industry best practices. Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to existing security architectures.
• Project Leadership: Lead key security projects, including large-scale migrations, upgrades, and the introduction of new Akamai features or services. Ensure timely delivery and adherence to high standards of security.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Senior Security Platform Engineer is responsible for effectively planning, designing, implementing, and monitoring security technologies and projects that support Sun Life’s security policies and procedures. Your primary responsibilities will be Supporting in Scope Platform and Products and developing use case scenarios, enhancing the security of Sun Life’s corporate and production systems. You will work closely with Enterprise Infrastructure, IT operations, Enterprise Architecture, and application development teams to identify risks to the business and lead security solutions to protect customer and financial information.
The successful candidate must be able to interpret complex information, adapt as needed and have a deep understanding of security risks, data impact and controls to help mitigate the risk and provide countermeasures.
A Senior Security Platform Engineer will take a lead role in the design, implementation, and optimization of security infrastructures, with a focus on Security content platform’s suite of web application protection technologies. You will spearhead initiatives to safeguard our web applications from advanced threats, oversee the enhancement of existing security controls, and mentor junior engineers. In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the security, performance, and reliability of web applications across the organization.

WHAT WILL YOU DO:

• Analyze information systems utilizing various cybersecurity techniques and lead security initiatives and enterprise level projects implementing security solutions and performing POC/POV for new technologies.
• Able to work independently with high degree of ambiguity and deliver expected outcomes, be focused on the end deliverables, and build trust with internal clients and peers.
• Responsible to deploy, support and maintain new and existing security technologies that are deployed within Sun Life and owned and supported by the team.
• Implement risk driven security controls and provide SME (Subject Matter Expertise) during Audit.
• Investigate and respond to security incidents, adhering to defined SLA’s. Participate in teams 24x7 on-call support and be required to join major incident management calls to provide support and consultation.
• Identify risks to the business and recommend strategies to address those risks.
• Manage the capacity and resiliency of security systems protecting Sun Life’s internal and client data.
• Collaborate and build trust with security peers, vendors, and other Sun Life teams to enhance security posture and best practices.
• A change catalyst for Digital transformation, using JIRA, Confluence, estimating stories, setting definition of done, completing and tracking story updates and assignments.
• Smoothly transition and operationalize projects and products. This includes developing roles & responsibilities (RACI), completing product documentation and educating the teams who will be performing BAU (Business as usual) the day-to-day work.
• Document, update and maintain cyber security playbooks, policies and knowledge base articles used to support the established Incident Management and CSIRT processes.
• Continuously improve operational and security platform processes.