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Security Compliance Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 12 years of relevant professional experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

  • Providing detailed analysis for compliance, including reports, presentations, assessing policies
  • Investigating potential issues and developing solutions by collaborating with stakeholders
  • Drafting governance documents supporting security initiatives and aligning with regulatory compliance requirements
  • Coordinating projects, supporting policy development, recommending updates, promoting awareness

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Time Management

About the company

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Akamai Technologies

  • Cybersecurity
  • XLarge
  • 5,001–10,000
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 20 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges? Be part of an amazing team. Let’s connect: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akamai Blog: https://www.akamai.com/blog

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Job description

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge web security platforms?

Would you enjoy translating security compliance into business and product requirements?

Join our global InfoSec Security Compliance Team!

The Security Compliance team collaborates with security experts to enhance Akamai's security posture and support customers' security needs. The team engages stakeholders to manage compliance programs tied to external standards. Staff liaises with auditors and consultants to convey Akamai's secure operations. Team members assist colleagues in understanding compliance and contributing to Akamai's adherence to standards.

Partner with the best

Compliance Advisors contribute to Akamai's security audits. This role involves assessing vendor risks and explaining compliance measures.

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

  • Providing detailed analysis for compliance, including reports, presentations, assessing policies, and collaborating on cyber governance.
  • Investigating potential issues and developing potential solutions by working collaboratively with stakeholders.
  • Drafting governance documents supporting security initiatives and aligning with regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Working independently and comfortably in ambiguous or less well defined circumstances to develop clear analysis
  • Coordinating projects, supporting policy development, recommending updates, promoting awareness, seeking consensus, and providing guidance.
  • Advancing collaboration across teams, developing workflows, and establishing metrics for operational effectiveness.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Possess 12 years of relevant professional experience, a Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication abilities effectively tailored to diverse audiences.
  • Demonstrate the capability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks and effectively prioritize work to maximize productivity.

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

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

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