Network Security Engineer with AI

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