Platform Engineer: Content Protection & Discoverability

1140 Springer-Verlag London Limited; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 80 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Springer Nature Group is seeking a Platform Engineer - Content Protection to design and operate traffic management and protection controls across our platforms. You will work with Data Analysts, Product Managers and SEO teams to evolve WAF signals, bot management, rate limiting and content protection strategies while ensuring legitimate access remains uninterrupted.

You will own incident response, develop operational playbooks, and partner with Fastly to maximize platform security and

Qualifications

• Hands-on WAF engineering experience, ideally with Fastly Next-Gen WAF (Signal Sciences) or equivalent platforms.
• Experience implementing bot management, rate limiting and traffic management controls.
• Experience responding to scraping, DDoS, automated abuse or similar traffic-management incidents.
• Strong understanding of HTTP, TLS, CDN and edge technologies.
• Ability to balance security, operational and business considerations when designing controls.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Desirable Experience with Fastly, Signal Sciences, edge compute or similar technologies.
• Experience working alongside security operations or managed security services teams.
• Experience with entitlement, identity or access-management systems.
• Understanding of SEO, crawler behaviour and digital discoverability ecosystems.
• Experience in academic publishing, research platforms or content-rich digital businesses.
• Experience working with emerging AI, agentic or machine-access use cases.

Responsabilités

• Build, operate and continuously improve WAF signals, policies and rules that detect and mitigate automated scraping, content extraction and abusive traffic.
• Own the lifecycle of traffic protection controls including design, testing, deployment, tuning, validation and retirement.
• Implement rate-limiting, bot-management and traffic-shaping strategies aligned to business objectives and platform requirements.
• Ensure protection controls are effective without negatively impacting legitimate discoverability, accessibility or customer experience.
• Turn analytical signals and intelligence into practical enforcement controls and measurable operational outcomes.
• Lead response activities relating to scraping, automated abuse, enumeration and traffic-related incidents.
• Maintain operational playbooks and runbooks for detection, escalation, mitigation and recovery.
• Implement controls using staged rollout approaches, balancing risk reduction with customer impact.
• Monitor effectiveness of controls and continually improve protection capabilities.
• Own the day-to-day technical relationship with Fastly MSS and associated content protection tooling.
• Review, validate and operationalise Fastly recommendations and outputs.
• Work with Fastly to maximise value from platform capabilities and identify future improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate changes with stakeholders and communicate impacts, dependencies and implementation plans.
• Partner closely with the Data Analyst to operationalise detection signals and validate outcomes.
• Work with SEO teams to ensure legitimate crawlers and discovery services remain appropriately supported.
• Support Product and Platform teams with traffic-aware architectural decisions.
• Help define organisational policies relating to acceptable, non-desirable and malicious automated access.
• Contribute to future approaches for managing AI agents, machine access and emerging content consumption models.

Connaissances

WAF engineering

Bot management

Traffic management

DDoS defense

HTTP/TLS/CDN

Stakeholder management

Fastly/Signal Sciences

Security operations

Identity/access management

SEO crawler awareness

Academic publishing background

AI/agentic access

Outils

Fastly Next-Gen WAF

Signal Sciences

Description du poste

Springer Nature Group is seeking a Platform Engineer - Content Protection to design and operate traffic management and protection controls across our platforms. You will work with Data Analysts, Product Managers and SEO teams to evolve WAF signals, bot management, rate limiting and content protection strategies while ensuring legitimate access remains uninterrupted.

You will own incident response, develop operational playbooks, and partner with Fastly to maximize platform security and