Hybrid Senior Security Engineer – Perimeter Security Operations

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About the role

  • Senior Security Engineer managing perimeter security operations for Fanatics' global e-commerce platform. Focus on operations, detection, automation, and reliability across multiple CDN and networking layers.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement executive-level traffic report briefings using automation, AI, and machine learning tooling to ensure actionability and strategic insight.
  • Operate, maintain, and optimize the perimeter defense stack across edge and origin layers (Akamai, Cloudflare, Blink Ops, Imperva, Fastly, Impart, AWS WAF, etc.).
  • Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events in partnership with our Perimeter Security analysts and threat detection teams.
  • Lead incident response and mitigation efforts for perimeter-layer attacks (e.g., scraping, credential stuffing, carding, and API abuse).
  • Perform ongoing signature tuning, rule deployment, and traffic analysis to improve signal-to-noise ratios across WAF/CDN layers.
  • Design and implement automation workflows in our SOAR platform (e.g., Tines, Torq, N8N) to streamline operations and enhance incident response.
  • Manage DNS, networking, and delivery routing systems including global traffic managers, failover policies, and load-balancing configurations across multiple data centers.
  • Develop automation and tooling to support alerting, ticket creation, and configuration validation using Splunk, Tines, and Jira.
  • Collaborate with traffic engineering, observability, and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, fault-tolerant configurations across multi-CDN environments.
  • Participate in a global on-call rotation for perimeter-related incidents and operational escalations.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards for the PSOC.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in security analysis, engineering, SOC operations, or CDN/WAF management.
  • Deep understanding of HTTP/S, DNS, and TLS fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with Akamai CDN and WAF, Cloudflare, and other origin based Wide Area Firewalls.
  • Strong knowledge of edge-layer security policies, rate limiting, caching behavior, and bot mitigation strategies.
  • Familiarity with Splunk or similar SIEM tools for analytics and detection.
  • Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for operational efficiency.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across globally distributed teams.
  • Must be able to work standard hours aligned with U.S. Eastern Time.

Job title

Senior Security Engineer – Perimeter Security Operations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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