Principal Security Compliance Specialist

Do you relish the prospect of leading enterprise-wide security compliance and regulatory authorization initiatives?

Do you have a passion for architecting global Security Compliance frameworks across complex cloud environments?

Join our global InfoSec Security Compliance Team!

Our Team is central to Akamai's commitment to monitor, understand and communicate about the evolving cyber-threat space. We are a team of security researchers, architects, analysts and subject matter experts. We translate compliance requirements into technically verifiable and architecturally sound controls that provide clear guidance, technical roadmaps, and executive explanations.

Partner with the best

You will be responsible for strategically driving and executing security compliance initiatives across our global enterprise portfolio. You will oversee compliance strategy and execution across any regulatory, industry, customer-driven, or defense framework. You will interpret complex requirements, design scalable control frameworks, and lead end-to-end audit initiatives by partnering with cross-functional teams.

As a Security Compliance Specialist Principal Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Architecting and implementing adaptable, unified control frameworks that allow engineering and product teams to satisfy commercial, federal, and DoD authorization requirements.
• Collaborating with security architects, software engineers, and system owners to design, test, and maintain technically verifiable controls mapped to diverse federal, defense, and international standards.
• Serving as primary technical interface for 3PAOs, C3PAOs, external audit bodies, and defense agencies.
• Managing end-to-end assessment lifecycles, evidence gathering, and finding remediations.
• Synthesizing complex compliance gaps, audit findings, and regulatory shifts into actionable risk models, written reports, and strategic briefings.
• Driving ongoing continuous monitoring and recurring audit workflows to ensure perpetual readiness across all existing and upcoming lifecycles.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 10+ years relevant experience and BA/BS or Graduate Degree
• Demonstrate success with security compliance programs across many frameworks. (DoD SRG IL4/IL5/IL6, CMMC, NIST SP 800-171/53, FedRAMP, SOC 1/2/3, ISO/IEC 27001, PCI-DSS, or GovRAMP).
• Show prior experience working directly within a Cloud Service Provider environment or consultant/assessor with a Third-Party Assessment Organization.
• Have a proven track record of interfacing with senior executive leadership, government/defense stakeholders, and translating compliance demands into strategic business enablers.
• Have CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CCA/CCP (CMMC Assessor/Professional), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent credentials.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $132,100 - $237,900/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.