Senior Edge Security Engineer - Akamai & WAF Expert

ISHE; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement, and optimize edge security services including Akamai WAF, Bot Manager Premier, and Imperva Website Security for enterprise web applications and APIs.

The role collaborates with application, cloud, infrastructure, and network teams to strengthen the digital perimeter, respond to threats, and continuously improve security controls. The position involves a rotating on-call schedule and potential after-hours support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise web application, API, or edge security.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Akamai security technologies or comparable enterprise WAF and application-security platforms.
• 3+ years of working knowledge: Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Bot management and DDoS mitigation, Web and API security, HTTP/HTTPS and TCP/IP, DNS and traffic management, SSL/TLS and certificate management, OWASP Top 10, and/or Linux-based environments.
• 2+ years of experience analyzing security telemetry, identify attack patterns, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement effective countermeasures.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Akamai security technologies, including WAF, Bot Manager Premier, Adaptive Security Engine, Client Reputation, Account Protector, DDoS protections, and related security services.
• Administer Imperva Website Security capabilities, including security configuration, monitoring, data protection controls, and origin integrations.
• Design and maintain security controls protecting web applications, APIs, and other internet-facing services.
• Configure and tune managed and custom WAF protections, rate limiting, IP and geographic controls, ACLs, API protections, and custom security rules.
• Develop and maintain bot mitigation controls using behavioral analysis, bot scoring, allowlists, denylists, and automated enforcement.
• Investigate and mitigate DDoS attacks, credential stuffing, account takeover attempts, scraping, and other application-layer threats.
• Analyze traffic, telemetry, and threat intelligence to improve protection while reducing false positives.
• Monitor security telemetry, Splunk, Grafana, and related platforms for threats and anomalies.
• Investigate and resolve security incidents and complex platform issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Provide technical escalation support for critical security events and production issues.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, networking, and security teams on onboarding, troubleshooting, and improvements.
• Support integration of security controls into CI/CD and application delivery processes.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Support security automation, audit, compliance, and risk-management initiatives.

Skills

Web security

Akamai

WAF

DDoS mitigation

Bot protection

API security

TLS/SSL

Threat intelligence

Security monitoring

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Akamai security technologies

Imperva Website Security

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement, and optimize edge security services including Akamai WAF, Bot Manager Premier, and Imperva Website Security for enterprise web applications and APIs.

The role collaborates with application, cloud, infrastructure, and network teams to strengthen the digital perimeter, respond to threats, and continuously improve security controls. The position involves a rotating on-call schedule and potential after-hours support.