DDoS Defense and Security Analytics

• Support DDoS defense operations through attack analysis, telemetry review, event classification, and response coordination across edge security platforms.
• Build and refine data-driven capabilities that improve identification of volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attack patterns across edge security platforms.
• Support automation of DDoS event analysis, classification, and workflow orchestration to improve operational speed, consistency, and decision support.
• Partner with security engineering, operations, and vendor teams to integrate relevant telemetry sources and improve the effectiveness of AI-assisted or analytics-driven defensive processes.

Automation and Continuous Improvement

• Develop and enhance automation frameworks that improve repeatability, scalability, and efficiency across edge security engineering and validation activities.
• Integrate automated workflows into engineering and operational processes, where appropriate, to support continuous assurance and faster remediation cycles.
• Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and metrics that communicate control performance, risk trends, and operational outcomes to technical and leadership stakeholders.
• Contribute to process improvements that advance standardization, measurable engineering outcomes, and operational effectiveness across WAF and DDoS-related security functions.

Required Experience

• Hands-on expertise in web application and edge security engineering, including configuration, tuning, and optimization of WAF technologies supporting internet-facing applications and services.
• Experience with Akamai WAF/CDN or comparable edge protection platforms.
• Experience with DDoS mitigation platforms or operational defense of large-scale internet-facing services.
• Experience with security telemetry integration, incident troubleshooting, escalation, and service restoration within operational environments.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with automation and data-driven security workflows.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, architecture, and vendor teams.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to AI-assisted or analytics-driven capabilities supporting DDoS defense or Akamai security tooling, including anomaly detection, event correlation, workflow automation, configuration optimization, or operational decision support.
• Experience working with DDoS mitigation platforms.
• Experience integrating security telemetry into SIEM or monitoring environments.
• Experience developing dashboards, reporting, or automation frameworks in support of continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with OWASP risks, application-layer attack patterns, and large-scale enterprise edge security operations.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) desired in Computer Science or Cybersecurity. 5+ years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas.

Supervisor:

No

Our Lead Cybersecurity earns between $141,300-$211,900 USD Annual not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
• AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

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Ready to join our team? Apply today.

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Alpharetta, Georgia

Salary Range:

$141,300.00 - $211,900.00

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