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