Akamai Security Engineer & Senior Akamai Security Engineer (Contract) Knutsford Hybrid - 3 days onsite 2 remote Senior: £620 per day Engineer: £490 per day Until 30/11/2026 INSIDE IR35

Our client is looking for an Akamai Security Engineer and a Senior Akamai Security Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and optimisation of Akamai security solutions across large-scale, high-traffic digital platforms.

These are key engineering roles focused on strengthening web security, enhancing performance, and embedding best-practice Akamai configurations into global environments.

Key Responsibilities

Engineer Configure & maintain Akamai tools (KSD, WAF, Bot Manager, CDN) Support implementation of rulesets, policies & routing configs Monitor traffic, identify threats & assist in incident response Tune WAF & bot rules to reduce false positives Assist with CDN configuration, caching & performance tuning Manage certificates, redirects, and Akamai property updates Collaborate with application teams for secure deployments Produce documentation & support continuous improvement

Senior Engineer Architect, configure & optimise Akamai tools (KSD, WAF, Bot Manager, CDN) Lead end-to-end policy and ruleset implementation Conduct threat analysis, log revie...