E-IT is seeking a Network Security Engineer with AI expertise to support application delivery and edge security platforms. The role involves hands-on engineering tasks, technical leadership, and collaboration with network security and application teams to ensure robust security controls and operational processes.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a senior technical contributor supporting application delivery and edge security platforms including F5 A10 WAF Cloudflare and Akamai and provides input into platform design resiliency and capacity planning activities
- Performs hands on engineering tasks including configuration maintenance and operational support of application delivery controllers WAF and CDN platforms and assists with onboarding and migration of applications into these platforms
- Partners with network security and application teams to ensure consistent traffic management security controls and operational processes across on prem cloud and edge environments
- Provides technical leadership and mentoring to peers through knowledge sharing documentation and design discussions and stays current with emerging application delivery and edge security technologies
- Participates in risk based technical decision making related to application delivery and security evaluating impact and severity to protect proprietary personal and privileged electronic data
- Implements and maintains network and application security best practices including change controls configuration standards documentation WAF CDN and load balancer policies and monitoring
- Troubleshoots complex application delivery network and security issues across layers one through seven including DNS TLS HTTP and CDN traffic flows and communicates status and resolution clearly to stakeholders
- Participates in on call rotation responding to high priority incidents within defined SLAs and supports maintenance activities during off hour change windows as required
- Creates and maintains technical documentation runbooks and audit artifacts and communicates findings recommendations and remediation steps when required
- Supports internal and external security assessments audits and questionnaires by providing technical input evidence and documentation and assists with remediation and corrective actions
Requirements:
- Five or more years of experience supporting application delivery controllers and edge platforms such as F5 A10 AVI Citrix WAF Cloudflare or Akamai in an enterprise environment
- Experience supporting cloud native applications in AWS Azure or GCP and securing applications using CDN or edge security platforms
- Strong understanding of HTTP HTTPS TLS DNS routing switching and application security concepts including OWASP Top Ten mitigations
- Working knowledge of scripting or automation is a plus
- All contractor resources are expected to demonstrate baseline proficiency in enterprise-approved AI tools as part of their day-to-day responsibilities
- Maintain a minimum of 90% weekly usage of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other GenAI platforms approved by the enterprise
- Leverage AI tools to enhance coding, documentation, data analysis, and decision-making workflows
- Stay current with evolving AI capabilities and features, and apply them to improve delivery quality and velocity