Senior Security Engineer – Perimeter Security Operations

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Hybrid

About the Role

Fanatics Commerce is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Perimeter Security Operations team in Hyderabad, India, responsible for protecting our global e-commerce and API platform against modern threats while ensuring high availability and optimal performance across millions of daily requests.

You will focus on the operations side of perimeter security, managing detection, response, tuning, automation, and reliability across multiple CDN, WAF, and networking layers. A core dimension of the role is developing and steering the team’s AI and agentic capabilities: building agentic skillsets and processes that extend analyst capacity, and implementing the guardrails that keep AI-driven operations safe, accurate, and auditable. You’ll partner closely with engineering, platform, SRE, and SOC teams to drive observability, enforce best practices, and continuously strengthen our edge defense posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement executive-level traffic report briefings using automation, AI, and machine learning tooling to ensure actionability and strategic insight.

• Develop AI and agentic skillsets, workflows, and processes (e.g., Claude skills, MCP integrations, LLM-assisted triage) that scale PSOC operations, including validation of AI outputs against ground truth.

• Design, implement, and enforce guardrails for AI and agentic systems, including bounded action scopes, approval gates, audit logging, and kill switches for automated production changes.

• Operate, maintain, and optimize the perimeter defense stack across edge and origin layers (Akamai, Cloudflare, Blink Ops, Imperva, Fastly, Impart, AWS WAF, etc.).

• Monitor, analyze, and respond to security events in partnership with our Perimeter Security analysts and threat detection teams.

• Lead incident response and mitigation efforts for perimeter-layer attacks (e.g., scraping, credential stuffing, carding, and API abuse).

• Perform ongoing signature tuning, rule deployment, and traffic analysis to improve signal-to-noise ratios across WAF/CDN layers.

• Design and implement automation workflows in our SOAR platform (e.g., Tines, Torq, N8N) to streamline operations and enhance incident response.

• Manage DNS, networking, and delivery routing systems including global traffic managers, failover policies, and load-balancing configurations across multiple data centers.

• Develop automation and tooling to support alerting, ticket creation, and configuration validation using Splunk, Tines, and Jira.

• Collaborate with traffic engineering, observability, and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable, fault-tolerant configurations across multi-CDN environments.

• Participate in a global on-call rotation for perimeter-related incidents and operational escalations.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards for the PSOC.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to craft clear, concise, and actionable reports while communicating complex technical details to executive, business, and engineering stakeholders.

• 5+ years of experience in security analysis, engineering, SOC operations, or CDN/WAF management.

• Deep understanding of HTTP/S, DNS, and TLS fundamentals.

• Hands-on experience with Akamai CDN and WAF, Cloudflare, and other origin-based Web Application Firewalls.

• Strong knowledge of edge-layer security policies, rate limiting, IP reputation analysis, and threat actor monitoring, caching behavior, and bot mitigation strategies.

• Experience with identifying and mitigating threats through anomaly detection, bot management, and operational traffic analysis. 

• Experience working with AI/LLM tooling or agentic automation in an operational context, with an understanding of failure modes (hallucination, silent errors) and the controls that mitigate them.

• Familiarity with Splunk or similar SIEM tools for analytics and detection.

• Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for operational efficiency.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across globally distributed teams.

• Must be able to work standard hours aligned with U.S. Eastern Time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale, high-traffic applications or e-commerce platforms.

• Experience in incident response and root cause analysis related to network or application security.

• Familiarity with automation platforms such as Tines, Torq, or other SOAR workflows.

• Experience building or governing agentic AI systems (MCP servers, LLM tool use, prompt and skill engineering) including access scoping and audit controls.

• Golang system engineering experience, including building or integrating automation and telemetry services.

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS cloud environments (networking, IAM, and security services).

• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for security configuration management.

Why Join Us

You’ll be joining a high-performing, collaborative global team dedicated to securing the edge of one of the world’s largest sports commerce platforms. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape the defense of billions of web and API requests daily, blending automation, AI, data, and security engineering in a fast-moving, impact-driven environment.