Platform Engineer: Content Protection & Traffic Security

Springer Nature; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Springer Nature is seeking a Platform Engineer - Content Protection to design, implement and operate traffic protection controls across platforms. You will partner with Data Analyst, Product Manager, Managed Security Services, SEO and Platform teams to balance discoverability with protection and revenue objectives, while addressing AI-driven access patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on WAF work, bot management and incident response, with a focus on scalable, secure content delivery across our

Qualifications

• Hands-on WAF engineering with Fastly Next-Gen or equivalent.
• Experience implementing bot management, rate limiting and traffic management.
• 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.

Responsabilités

• Content Protection Execution: Build, operate and improve WAF signals, policies and rules.
• Incident Management: Lead response activities for scraping and automated abuse incidents.
• Vendor Management: Own relationship with Fastly MSS and protection tooling.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Data Analyst, SEO teams and Product/Platform teams.
• Roadmap & governance: Establish playbooks and governance for content protection activities.

Connaissances

WAF engineering

Bot management

Traffic management

Scraping response

HTTP/TLS/CDN

Security trade-offs

Stakeholder mgmt

Fastly/SignalSci

Edge computing

Identity access

SEO behavior

Academic publishing

AI agent access

Description du poste

Springer Nature is seeking a Platform Engineer - Content Protection to design, implement and operate traffic protection controls across platforms. You will partner with Data Analyst, Product Manager, Managed Security Services, SEO and Platform teams to balance discoverability with protection and revenue objectives, while addressing AI-driven access patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on WAF work, bot management and incident response, with a focus on scalable, secure content delivery across our