Manager, Cyber Technical ( DDoS) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

Manager, Cyber Technical ( DDoS) (Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering)

We are seeking a highly skilled DDoS Protection Engineer to join our cybersecurity and network defense team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced DDoS mitigation strategies, conducting deep packet analysis, and contributing to the development of automated defense capabilities. You will collaborate closely with engineers and architects to strengthen infrastructure resiliency and ensure rapid response to network-based attacks.

The Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering (CORE) Technology division is responsible for enabling and evolving Capital One’s foundational cloud infrastructure layer, including observability, connectivity, resilience and availability.

Team: 

The DDoS engineering team is responsible for protecting Capital One’s global network infrastructure from volumetric and application-layer attacks by delivering resilient, automated mitigation strategies and deep traffic intelligence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain DDoS protection architectures, including cloud-based and on-prem solutions.

• Perform deep packet inspection and traffic analysis to detect and mitigate DDoS and other volumetric attacks.

• Develop and fine-tune mitigation tactics and policies aligned with MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.

• Monitor network traffic and respond to real-time DDoS events, working in coordination with SOC and NOC teams.

• Collaborate with network and security architects to design scalable and resilient protection strategies.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts and APIs for detection, mitigation, and alerting workflows.

• Provide operational support for DDoS tools, services, and related infrastructure.

• Analyze post-incident data to enhance detection, response time, and mitigation efficiency.

• Work closely across teams across the organization to ensure compliance with existing standards, identify gaps in existing standards and enhance standard governance procedures.

• Work closely with enterprise architects, product managers, Cloud/DevOps engineers, and SRE teams to understand our processes and approaches and influence change where appropriate

• Challenge and assess automation frameworks to support the platform products

• Guide best practices for security related appliances including following and implementing evolving industry standards.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification

• At least 4 years of experience in Information Technology or Cyber Security

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of experience developing or challenging engineering practices through critical examination of problem and collaboration with team members and customers (developers, architects, engineers)

• 3+ years of experience in network security or DDoS mitigation

• 2 + years hands-on experience with cloud-based DDoS protection platforms Akamai, AWS Shield, Cloudflare, Radware, or Arbor

• 1 + year experience with packet analysis tools Wireshark, tcpdump, and traffic flow monitoring

• 3 + years of experience with TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, HTTP/S, and other Layer 3–7 protocols.

• 1+ year experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash)

• Strong problem-solving and incident response skills

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

• 2 + years experience working with networking protocols and technology across routing, monitoring, and VPN services, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and VRF

• One or more certifications GCIA, CompTIA Security+, AWS certifications, CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE

 

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization)

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