platform engineer for content protection

Enfint; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Springer Nature ищет специалиста по кeuр WAF и защите контента для защиты от автоматизированного доступа и злоупотреблений трафиком. Ваша задача — проектировать и поддерживать политики, отслеживать инциденты и работать с Fastly и SEO-командами для сохранения легитимной индексации.

Опыт работы с Fastly/Signal Sciences, знание HTTP/TLS/CDN и умение общаться со стейкхолдерами необходимы. Желателен опыт в академическом издательстве и исследовательских платформах, а также работа с AI/agentic-quote

Qualificações

• Опыт hands-on WAF, предпочтительно Fastly Next-Gen WAF или аналоги.
• Опыт внедрения bot management, rate limiting и traffic management.
• Опыт реагирования на scraping, DDoS, автоматизированное злоупотребление.
• Сильное понимание HTTP, TLS, CDN и edge-технологий.
• Умение балансировать безопасность, операционные и бизнес-приоритеты.
• Навыки взаимодействия со стейкхолдерами и эффективной коммуникации.
• Приветствуется: опыт с Fastly, Signal Sciences, edge compute.
• Опыт работы в security operations или с managed security services.
• Опыт с entitlement, identity или access-management системами.
• Понимание SEO, поведения краулеров и цифровой видимости.
• Опыт в академическом издательстве, исследовательских платформах.
• Опыт работы с AI/agentic или машинно-доступными сценариями.

Responsabilidades

• Разрабатывать, эксплуатировать и улучшать WAF-лейеры, политики и правила.
• Управлять жизненным циклом средств защиты трафика и реагирования на инциденты.
• Реализовывать rate-limiting, bot-management и стратегии управления трафиком.
• Гарантировать защиту без ущерба для легитимного индексаирования и пользовательского опыта;
• Преобразовывать аналитические сигналы в практические контрольные процедуры.
• Вести работу по устранению scraping и автоматизированного злоупотребления.
• Обновлять оперативные плейбуки, регламентирующие процессы реагирования.
• Работать с Fastly и внешними подрядчиками для максимизации возможностей платформы.
• Координировать изменения с заинтересованными сторонами и сообщать о зависимостях.
• Сотрудничать с аналитиками и SEO-командами для легитимного crawling.

Conhecimentos

WAF-инженерия

Bot management

Rate limiting

Traffic management

HTTP/TLS/CDN/edge-технологии

Stakeholder management

SEO/краулеры

AI/agentic access

Security operations collaboration

Entitlement/Identity Access

Academic publishing/исследовательские

Ferramentas

Fastly

Signal Sciences

Edge compute

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Описание

Springer Nature provides researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals with access to knowledge through books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions. Its content reaches millions of people globally, while the company works to keep knowledge discoverable and protected.

Задачи

Build, operate, and continuously improve WAF signals, policies, and rules to 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 with business objectives and platform requirements; Ensure protection controls do not negatively impact legitimate discoverability, accessibility, or customer experience; Turn analytical signals and intelligence into practical enforcement controls and measurable operational outcomes; Lead response activities for 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 that balance risk reduction with customer impact; Monitor control effectiveness and continuously 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 platform capabilities and identify future improvement opportunities; Coordinate changes with stakeholders and communicate impacts, dependencies, and implementation plans; Partner with the Data Analyst to operationalise detection signals and validate outcomes; Work with SEO teams to support legitimate crawlers and discovery services; Support Product and Platform teams with traffic-aware architectural decisions; Help define organisational policies for acceptable, non-desirable, and malicious automated access; Contribute to approaches for managing AI agents, machine access, and emerging content consumption models; Build relationships with Managed Services vendor, Product, Platform Engineering, SEO, and Analytics stakeholders; Develop an understanding of existing WAF configurations, controls, and operating processes; Review recent incidents and identify immediate improvement opportunities; Establish operational playbooks and governance processes; Establish repeatable workflows for traffic anomaly detection and response; Create clear ownership and decision-making processes for content protection activities; Reduce engineering involvement in reactive mitigation activities; Deliver measurable improvements in response capability and operational readiness; Operate a mature content protection capability integrated into platform operations; Develop trusted partnerships with Fastly and internal stakeholders; Improve protection against high-volume and slow-accumulation content extraction techniques; Lay the foundations for managing AI-driven and agentic access patterns at scale; Help Springer Nature balance discoverability, content protection, and future commercial opportunities.

Требования

• 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
• Nice to have: 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

Условия

No conditions specified