Network Security Specialist Senior; WAF

Job Details

Candidates must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder.

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in either our Cincinnati, OH, or Atlanta, GA. 2 days per week if within our Denver, CO office.

We’re looking for a Network Security Engineer Specialist to join our ever‑evolving Edge & Network Security team and help us unleash the potential of every business.

• Lead engineering and continuous improvement for WAF and edge security platforms, with primary focus on application protection, bot mitigation, API protection, and related controls across a global enterprise environment.
• Administer, harden, and optimize Akamai and Cloudflare platforms, including WAF policies, managed rules, custom rules, rate limiting, bot controls, API security, and security analytics.
• Design, maintain, and tune scalable WAF security policies for internet-facing applications, including traffic inspection, threat protection, allow/block logic, exception handling, and false‑positive reduction.
• Drive reliable and secure platform changes through safe rollout planning, validation, rollback readiness, post‑change review, and operational standardization.
• Serve as a technical lead and escalation point for complex WAF issues, high‑risk changes, application access problems, and high‑severity incidents.
• Partner with internal teams and vendors to improve service reliability and visibility, including SOC/IR, Application Security, Network Operations, infrastructure, application teams, and vendors; improve logging, telemetry, SIEM integration, runbooks, metrics, and durable vendor resolutions.

Participate in a rotating on‑call schedule for incidents. Act as a senior escalation point for major issues affecting WAF, edge security, application protection, or related network security services. Contribute to post‑incident analysis and ensure durable corrective actions are implemented. Participate in readiness activities, operational reviews, and resilience improvements for critical edge and application security services.

On‑Call

Schedule:

• Weekdays: 10 am – 10 pm ET (rotates between 4 colleagues)
• Weekends: 10 pm Friday – 10 pm Sunday ET (rotates between 7 colleagues)

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in network security, application security, edge security, or security engineering roles within enterprise environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with WAF technologies, especially Akamai and Cloudflare, including managed rules, custom rules, bot protection, rate limiting, API protection, and security analytics.
• Experience with WAF policy design and operations, including application onboarding, traffic inspection, rule tuning, exception handling, troubleshooting, and false‑positive reduction.
• Strong networking and security fundamentals, including TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP/S, certificates, routing, NAT, CDN/reverse proxy concepts, and zero trust.
• Experience supporting large‑scale global environments, serving as a senior escalation point during major incidents, mentoring engineers, reviewing work, and communicating effectively across teams.

• Experience with Terraform, Python, CI/CD, APIs, or automation for security platforms.
• Familiarity with SWG, Proxy, SASE, Secure Access, Zscaler, Prisma Access, or Palo Alto technologies.
• Experience with F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) DDoS protection, CDN traffic management, or hybrid edge architectures.
• Exposure to regulated environments or relevant certifications such as Akamai, Cloudflare, CISSP, GIAC, PCNSE, or Zscaler.

For this full‑time position, the good faith estimated annual salary range upon hire is $ – $. This range reflects what we reasonably expect to offer based on the role’s responsibilities, level, and geographic location. The actual starting salary will be determined by a candidate’s experience, job‑related skills, and relevant education or training. Please note that changes in work location may impact the final offered salary.

Worldpay is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here. If you are made a conditional offer of employment and will be working in the United States, you will be required to undergo a drug test.

Reasonable accommodations will be provided for individuals with qualified disabilities both during the hiring process, as well as to allow individuals to perform the essential functions of the job, if hired.