Senior Edge Security Engineer - WAF & DDoS Expert

CVS Health; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement, and optimize edge security controls for enterprise web apps, APIs, and internet-facing services. You will work across security, application, cloud, and network teams to strengthen the digital perimeter and respond to threats.

The role covers Akamai and Imperva security technologies, threat protection, and incident response, with 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 of hands-on experience with Akamai security technologies or comparable enterprise WAF and application-security platforms.
• 3+ years of working knowledge: 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.
• 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.

Skills

Akamai & edge security

WAF & bot protection

DDoS mitigation

API security

DNS security

Certificate management

Security telemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

CI/CD

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement, and optimize edge security controls for enterprise web apps, APIs, and internet-facing services. You will work across security, application, cloud, and network teams to strengthen the digital perimeter and respond to threats.

The role covers Akamai and Imperva security technologies, threat protection, and incident response, with a rotating on-call schedule and potential after-hours support.