Senior Security Engineer

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November 13

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Fanatics, Inc.

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Gaming • Retail • eCommerce

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that aims to enhance the fan experience for over 100 million sports enthusiasts worldwide. The company operates across several divisions including Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. They offer fans the opportunity to buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle products, and headwear, collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets, as well as engage in sports betting. Fanatics partners with over 900 sports properties globally, including major leagues, teams, and athletes, and operates more than 2,000 retail locations. The company is committed to corporate responsibility with a focus on philanthropy, diversity and inclusion, brand protection, and sustainability.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

🎮 Gaming

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• 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.