Network Security Specialist Senior (WAF)

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder 

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in either our Cincinnati, OH, or Atlanta, GA. 2 days per week if within our Denver, CO office. 

Ready to take your career global? 

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Network Security Engineer Specialist to join our ever-evolving Edge&Network Security team and help us unleash the potential of every business.  

This role is to strengthen and evolve our web application firewall, edge security, and application protection platforms across a global enterprise environment. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused primarily on WAF, edge security, application-layer controls, bot mitigation, API protection, and traffic inspection.  

Our core platforms include Akamai and Cloudflare technologies, including WAF policies, managed and custom rules, bot protection, rate limiting, API security, DDoS-adjacent controls, security analytics, and edge traffic protection. 

This role supports business-critical applications and services across a global environment. You will lead engineering and delivery efforts, improve service reliability, reduce false positives, mentor other engineers, and act as a technical escalation point during high-severity incidents involving WAF, edge security, application access, or related network security services.  

This is an engineering-first role, with approximately 80% of time focused on design, implementation, tuning, and operational improvement, and approximately 20% supporting incident mitigation and high-severity response.  

On-Call Expectations: Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for incidents. Act as a senior escalation point for major issues affecting WAF, edge security, application protection, or related network security services. Contribute to post-incident analysis and ensure durable corrective actions are implemented. Participate in readiness activities, operational reviews, and resilience improvements for critical edge and application security services.  

On-Call Schedule: 

Weekdays: 10 am – 10 pm ET (rotates between 4 colleagues) 

Weekends: 10 pm Friday – 10 pm Sunday ET ( rotates between 7 colleagues) 

What you’ll own 

• Lead engineering and continuous improvement for WAF and edge security platforms, with primary focus on application protection, bot mitigation, API protection, and related controls across a global enterprise environment.