Network Security Engineer

About the role

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in our Cincinnati, OH. Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments.

Responsibilities

• Support the operation and continuous improvement of WAF and edge security platforms, with a focus on application, API, and bot protection.
• Configure and tune Akamai, Cloudflare, or similar platforms, including WAF policies, managed and custom rules, rate limiting, bot controls, and security analytics.
• Onboard internet-facing applications and implement appropriate protections, exceptions, and allow/block controls.
• Analyze traffic, logs, and security events to identify threats, configuration issues, false positives, and policy improvement opportunities.
• Troubleshoot WAF blocks, application access, TLS/certificate, DNS, proxy, and other edge security issues.
• Implement and validate changes using established testing, peer-review, rollback, and change-management processes.
• Support incident response, maintain operational documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with application, security, network, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, networking, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in network security, application security, edge security, security operations, infrastructure engineering, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience supporting WAF or application protection technologies, preferably Akamai, Cloudflare, or a comparable WAF/CDN platform.
• Experience with application onboarding, policy implementation, traffic analysis, rule tuning, exception handling, troubleshooting, and false-positive reduction.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS and certificates, DNS, proxies, load balancing, NAT, routing, and CDN or edge security concepts.
• Ability to analyze logs, HTTP transactions, application behavior, and security events to investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work across distributed teams, follow change-management processes, and participate in a rotating on-call schedule.

Qualifications

• Experience with Akamai or Cloudflare application, API, or bot protection capabilities.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Python, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD pipelines, or other security automation tools.
• Experience with SIEM platforms, dashboards, alerts, or reporting for WAF and edge security events.
• Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10, API abuse, credential attacks, automated threats, or application-layer denial-of-service patterns.
• Exposure to SASE, secure web gateways, Zscaler, Prisma Access, Palo Alto, F5 Distributed Cloud, DDoS protection, or load-balancing technologies.
• Experience in a regulated or highly available enterprise environment, or a relevant certification such as Security+, CCNA, Akamai, Cloudflare, GIAC, Palo Alto, or Zscaler.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with WAF and edge security technologies.
• Experience with application onboarding and policy implementation.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS and certificates, DNS, proxies, load balancing, NAT, routing, and CDN or edge security concepts.
• Ability to analyze logs, HTTP transactions, application behavior, and security events.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience with SIEM platforms, dashboards, alerts, or reporting.
• Experience with SASE, secure web gateways, Zscaler, Prisma Access, Palo Alto, F5 Distributed Cloud, DDoS protection, or load-balancing technologies.

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Hybrid 3 days per week