Senior Edge Security Engineer – Akamai & Web Apps

CVS Health

Denver (CO)

On-site

USD 83,000 - 222,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer - Akamai & Edge Security Services to design, implement, and optimize controls protecting web apps, APIs, and internet-facing services. You will partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen the enterprise perimeter and respond to threats.

The role includes on-call rotation, incident response, and advancing security automation, documentation, and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in enterprise web application, API, or edge security.
Hands-on knowledge of Akamai security technologies or comparable platforms.
Experience with WAF, bot management, DDoS mitigation, and API/TLS security.
Familiarity with security telemetry and incident response.

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 Akamai 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 security 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.