Dev Sec Ops Engineer Senior- WAAF Specialist
Heredia - Costa Rica
Job Summary
Were hiring a Senior AWS Cloud Security / DevSecOps Engineer to lead AWS WAF/API security and expand layer7 inspection across a large hightraffic environment. Youll contribute to policy strategy own tuning develop availabilitysafe mitigations (including virtual patching) and build incident plans that isolate cause and minimize growth. Youll bring AWS networking experience and zero trust fundamentals. Additionally youll have automation skills including proficiency in Python and Tines. Youll partner with SRE/TOC/SecOps to ensure logging and telemetry are available during incidents. Furthermore youll improve reliability over time. We also value innovators and tinkerers who run safe experiments and adopt new technology thoughtfully without compromising customer trust. We also value AI literacy and an AI security mindset: understanding agentic/GenAI architectures inherent risks and networklayer mitigations that allow safe adoption in regulated environments. You will report to the Senior Manager Network Security.
What youll own / deliver
- AWS L7 inspection & network protection including WAF firewall IPS and proxy patterns with safe rollouts
- WAF & API security: tuning falsepositive reduction and emergency mitigations/virtual patching
- AI / agentic integration security using leastprivilege gateways segmentation logging and rate controls
- Edge performance: CDN caching compression and edgetoorigin troubleshooting
- Incident response engineering in partnership with SRE/TOC/SecOps improving telemetry and runbooks
- Automation with Python and Tines to enforce guardrails and reduce toil
- Cloud security posture awareness across CSPM and SASE/SSE in AWS environments
Qualifications :
Required Experience & Capabilities
- You have deep AWS networking experience at production scale (segmentation traffic flows failure modes safe change).
- Zero Trust network design (least privilege controlled access policydriven segmentation).
- 3 years of experience DevSecOps and automation skills (Python Tines).
- Web application and API security expertise with availabilitysafe controls.
- AI security literacy including GenAI risks and mitigations.
- Excellent documentation crossteam influence and incident response discipline.
- Audit and evidencedriven control design.
What Success Is
- Secure reliable L7 inspection and WAF/API protections with minimal customer impact.
- Improved edge performance without weakening security.
- Faster incident response (lower MTTR) through strategies and telemetry.
- AI integrations that follow secure leastprivilege patterns with auditability.
Additional Information :
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- Benefits/Perks:
Our benefits include: Medical life and dental insurance Asociacion Solidarista International Share Save Plan Flex Work/Work from home Paid time off Annual Performance Bonus Education Reimbursement Family Bonding Bereavement Leave Referral Program and more.
- This is a fully remote job opportunity. #LI-Remote
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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