Protect global e-commerce and API platform against modern threats.
Manage detection, response, tuning, automation, and reliability across multiple CDN, WAF, and networking layers.
Develop and steer team’s AI and agentic capabilities, building skillsets and implementing guardrails.
Partner closely with engineering, platform, SRE, and SOC teams.
Develop executive-level traffic reports using automation and AI.
Design guardrails for AI systems including audit logging and kill switches.
Operate and optimize the perimeter defense stack.
Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events.
Lead incident response and mitigation efforts for perimeter-layer attacks.
Conduct ongoing signature tuning and traffic analysis.
Design automation workflows in SOAR platform to streamline operations.

5+ years of experience in security analysis, engineering, SOC operations, or CDN/WAF management.
Deep understanding of HTTP/S, DNS, and TLS fundamentals.
Hands-on experience with Akamai CDN and WAF, Cloudflare, and other origin-based Web Application Firewalls.
Strong knowledge of edge-layer security policies, rate limiting, IP reputation analysis, and threat actor monitoring, caching behavior, and bot mitigation strategies.
Experience with identifying and mitigating threats through anomaly detection, bot management, and operational traffic analysis.
Experience working with AI/LLM tooling or agentic automation in an operational context, with an understanding of failure modes (hallucination, silent errors) and the controls that mitigate them.
Familiarity with Splunk or similar SIEM tools for analytics and detection.
Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for operational efficiency.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across globally distributed teams.
Must be able to work standard hours aligned with U.S. Eastern Time.

Senior Security Engineer – Perimeter Security Operations

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