WAF & Edge Security Engineer — Hybrid Role

Total System Services; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Total System Services in Atlanta, GA, is seeking a Network Security Engineer to join the Edge & Network Security team. The role focuses on securing web application firewalls, edge security, API protection, and bot mitigation across a global enterprise.

You will onboard applications, tune protections, investigate incidents, and collaborate across multiple teams. The role is hybrid (3 days/week in office in Atlanta, GA or Cincinnati, OH) with on-call rotations and a strong emphasis on hands-on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, networking, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in network security, application security, edge security, security operations, or related role.
• Hands-on experience supporting WAF or application protection technologies, preferably Akamai, Cloudflare, or a comparable WAF/CDN platform.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS and certificates, DNS, proxies, load balancing, NAT, routing, and CDN/edge security concepts.
• Ability to analyze logs, HTTP transactions, application behavior, and security events to investigate and resolve technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Operate, strengthen, and improve web application firewall, edge security, and application protection platforms across a global enterprise environment.
• Configure and tune Akamai, Cloudflare, or similar platforms, including WAF policies, rules, rate limiting, and security analytics.
• Onboard internet-facing applications and implement protections, exceptions, and allow/block controls.
• Analyze traffic, logs, and security events to identify threats, false positives, and policy improvements.
• Troubleshoot WAF blocks, TLS/certificate, DNS, proxy, and other edge security issues.
• Implement and validate changes using testing, peer-review, rollback, and change-management processes.
• Support incident response and maintain runbooks and documentation.

Skills

WAF expertise

Edge security

Incident response

Troubleshooting

Network security

TCP/IP / HTTPS

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Akamai

Cloudflare

SIEM

Terraform

Python

Job description

Total System Services in Atlanta, GA, is seeking a Network Security Engineer to join the Edge & Network Security team. The role focuses on securing web application firewalls, edge security, API protection, and bot mitigation across a global enterprise.

You will onboard applications, tune protections, investigate incidents, and collaborate across multiple teams. The role is hybrid (3 days/week in office in Atlanta, GA or Cincinnati, OH) with on-call rotations and a strong emphasis on hands-on