Network Security Engineer

• 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.

• 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.

It’s a bonus if you have

• 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.

Weekdays: 10 am - 10 pm ET (rotates between 4 colleagues)

Weekends: 10 pm Friday - 10 pm Sunday ET (rotates between 7 colleagues)

Our core platforms include Akamai and Cloudflare technologies, including WAF policies, managed and custom rules, bot protection, rate limiting, API security, security analytics, and edge traffic protection., Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.