WAF/CDN Security Architect

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🕒 May 20

🏈 Alabama, Alaska, +44 more states – Remote

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Select Minds LLC

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Select Minds LLC is a digital transformation company that specializes in providing comprehensive IT solutions, including application development, enterprise UX, infrastructure management, and analytics. With a focus on tailored digital communication and innovative solutions, Select Minds empowers organizations to enhance their digital capabilities and achieve business success. The company emphasizes its commitment to collaboration and adaptability, ensuring that clients receive customized services that meet their unique needs for today's and tomorrow's challenges.

📋 Description

• Lead onboarding and migration of applications onto Akamai CDN and WAF platforms. • Configure, maintain, and support Akamai edge security and content delivery services. • Implement and tune WAF policies, security controls, caching rules, and traffic management configurations. • Work closely with application, network, cloud, and security teams to ensure secure and optimized application delivery. • Troubleshoot complex Layer 1–7 issues involving DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, CDN behavior, caching, and origin connectivity. • Support production incidents, root cause analysis, and operational escalations. • Participate in on-call rotation and support maintenance activities during off-hour change windows. • Develop technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and audit artifacts. • Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders on application onboarding and security initiatives. • Support security assessments, audits, remediation activities, and compliance requirements. • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineering teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of overall IT infrastructure/network/security experience. • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Akamai CDN and WAF technologies in enterprise environments. • Strong expertise with: • Akamai Kona Site Defender (KSD) • Akamai CDN • Edge DNS • Property Manager • Bot Manager • TLS/Certificate Management • Strong understanding of: • HTTP/HTTPS • TLS/SSL • DNS • TCP/IP • CDN caching • Load balancing • Web application security • Experience with OWASP Top 10 mitigation and WAF tuning. • Experience supporting cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or GCP. • Familiarity with enterprise ADC/load balancer technologies such as F5, AVI, Citrix ADC, A10, or Cloudflare. • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills. • Experience working directly with vendors and driving technical discussions independently. • Akamai certifications preferred. • Experience with automation/scripting using Python, Shell, Terraform, or APIs. • Experience with SIEM integrations, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code. • Prior experience supporting large-scale internet-facing enterprise applications.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote • Competitive salary • Opportunity for advancement