Senior Cloud Security Engineer - WAF Specialist

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare, seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to architect and operationalize their enterprise Edge Defense strategy. The role involves defining long-term WAAP architecture, standardizing protection patterns, and mentoring other security engineers in edge and cloud security domains.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the enterprise Edge Defense architecture across cloud-native, CDN-layer, and hybrid environments
• Lead cross-vertical rollout of standardized WAAP patterns, replacing fragmented or manually managed implementations with automated, enforceable models
• Drive vendor evaluation, integration, and lifecycle governance for WAAP technologies
• Establish infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code frameworks that make secure edge protection the default path for Engineering teams
• Partner deeply with Platform and Product Engineering during system design to prevent downstream security debt
• Define and track program-level KPIs for edge protection, including coverage, enforcement maturity, drift reduction, onboarding velocity, and detection quality
• Mentor and elevate other security engineers in edge and cloud security domains

Requirements:

• Deep experience designing and operating WAAP or WAF controls at scale across multi-account and multi-environment deployments
• Proven ability to architect security programs, including governance models, automation strategy, lifecycle management, and cross-team alignment
• Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise and experience building reusable modules and guardrails adopted across teams
• Demonstrated success serving as a trusted, customer-oriented security partner to Engineering leadership
• Ability to influence without authority and navigate competing priorities across verticals
• Strong operational instincts and experience designing for long-term maintainability and response integration
• Comfort operating in regulated environments and designing controls that scale across commercial and compliance-constrained systems
• Active use of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate infrastructure and security engineering work, with appropriate validation discipline
• You have architected or materially transformed a WAAP or edge protection program across multiple engineering verticals
• You have led vendor migrations or platform consolidations in the edge protection space
• You have authored Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that shaped long-term security architecture and influenced senior engineering leadership
• You have defined measurable security KPIs that guided roadmap investment and engineering alignment
• You are known for reducing architectural complexity while increasing automation, coverage, and engineering confidence