Cyber SDC-WAF & Internet Ingress & Edge-Manager
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
- At least 8 years of experience in WAF, application delivery, load balancing, cloud networking, edge security, infrastructure operations, or related technical disciplines is required.
- At least 3 years of experience leading technical teams, service delivery, operations, or platform management is required.
- Experience managing business-critical production services using formal incident, change, problem, and lifecycle management practices is required.
- Working knowledge of WAF policy operations, content delivery networks, bot and distributed denial-of-service controls, AWS Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer, AVI, Azure ingress, DNS, SSL/TLS certificates, and Infrastructure as Code is required.
- Experience with customer engagement, leadership, communication, risk management, troubleshooting, and decision-making is required.
- Own end-to-end operational delivery for WAF and Internet Ingress and Edge services.
- Establish service priorities, operating rhythms, ownership boundaries, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
- Maintain alignment between WAF protection, application delivery, ingress, DNS, certificates, load balancing, and edge security operations.
- Represent the service tower in customer reviews, governance forums, architecture discussions, and operational planning activities.
- Ensure services remain secure, available, supportable, auditable, and aligned with business needs.
- Lead, coach, and develop WAF and Internet Ingress and Edge engineers across senior and staff levels.
- Manage staffing, work allocation, coverage schedules, on-call rotations, skills development, and succession planning.
- Promote cross-training between WAF, load balancing, cloud networking, DNS, certificates, and automation disciplines.
- Confirm team members follow standard work, change controls, documentation expectations, and operational procedures.
- Identify capacity or capability gaps and coordinate staffing, vendor, or specialist support as needed.
- Own service metrics, service-level agreement and key performance indicator performance, operational reporting, risk tracking, backlog health, and improvement actions.
- Lead service reviews, problem management, root cause follow-through, and corrective action governance.
- Maintain intake, prioritization, approval, escalation, and lifecycle management processes.
- Ensure customer dependencies, approvals, and handoffs are visible and appropriately managed.
- Drive documentation, runbooks, inventories, support records, and operating procedures.
- Serve as an operational escalation point for significant availability, security, performance, or application delivery issues.
- Coordinate cross-team response across WAF, ingress, cloud, firewall, network, application, and vendor resources.
- Provide or support incident command when major incidents require structured coordination and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure recovery actions, communications, technical decisions, and follow-up items are documented and completed.
- Use incident and problem trends to improve resilience, monitoring, runbooks, and support readiness.
- Own lifecycle planning across WAF, CDN, bot and DDoS capabilities, AWS ALB/NLB, AVI, Azure ingress, DNS, certificates, and associated automation.
- Guide platform upgrades, maintenance, capacity planning, modernization, decommissioning, and vendor coordination.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, configuration standardization, monitoring, and configuration drift remediation.
- Identify opportunities to simplify onboarding, reduce manual effort, improve observability, and increase operational consistency.
- Translate lessons learned into standard work and measurable service improvements.
- Govern application onboarding, protection, service exposure, traffic management, and operational acceptance processes.
- Ensure ownership, dependencies, DNS, certificates, routing, monitoring, security, support, and rollback requirements are understood before production changes.
- Coordinate with application owners and dependent teams to minimize disruption and resolve blockers.
- Maintain accountability for business decisions, technical approvals, and operational responsibilities.
- Support predictable handoff from implementation into steady-state operations.
- Experience leading integrated WAF and application delivery teams in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Experience with Cloudflare, Akamai, F5 Distributed Cloud, Imperva, AWS WAF, Azure WAF/Front Door, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with Terraform, Git-based workflows, APIs, monitoring, SIEM integration, and operational automation.
- Experience managing on-call models and coordinating major incident response.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer Associate, ITIL, or comparable credentials.
About the company
EY (Ernst & Young) provides professional services at a global scale, offering consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction advisory services. It serves clients across industries such as technology, media, real estate, hospitality, and construction. Instead of selling a single product, EY works with clients through tailored engagements where cross-disciplinary teams analyze challenges, design strategies, perform audits, help with tax planning, and assist with mergers or divestitures. What sets EY apart is its worldwide reach and integrated service model, industry-specific expertise, and focus on responsible business practices like sustainability, cybersecurity, and workforce flexibility. EY’s goal is to help organizations improve performance, manage risk, and achieve sustainable growth while building a better working world.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
1991
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What believers are saying
- EY.ai Agentic for Sales launched March 2, 2026 with Snowflake and Canva.
- EY uses client-zero deployments, scaling Copilot across 400,000 people by May 2026.
- EY’s 2026 AI assurance push monetizes client demand for governance, controls, and risk reviews.
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- Sabah filed RM2.4 billion audit-negligence claims against EY on July 30, 2026.
- EY set aside £188 million in March 2026 after NMC, Shell, and Made.com scrutiny.
- Repeated audit failures can destroy trust, trigger client defections, and shrink the franchise permanently.
What makes Ernst & Young unique
- EY Canvas processes 1.4 trillion journal-entry lines across 160,000 global audits.
- EY-Microsoft invested US$1b+ in May 2026 to industrialize enterprise AI delivery.
- EY launched agentic audit AI on April 7, 2026, spanning Assurance and AI assurance.
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EY added nearly 10,000 staff globally in its 2026 financial year as AI-related revenue surged almost 50%. The Big Four firm's workforce reached 415,000, with most growth concentrated in global delivery services and offshoring centres. The Americas division saw headcount decrease by roughly 4,500, or 5%. Overall global revenue rose 4.7% to $57 billion. EY-Parthenon was the fastest-growing service line, with revenue increasing 7.4% to $6.8 billion, marking a turnaround after two years of minimal growth. Tax revenue rose 6% to $13.8 billion, whilst consulting grew 4.4% to $17.4 billion. The results reflect EY's "All-In" strategy under global chair Janet Truncale, with billions invested in transforming operations and AI services.
An Ernst & Young study found US oil and gas producers reached record production in 2025 while becoming more selective with investments. The analysis of 30 major exploration and production companies, representing 43% of US oil and gas output, showed oil production hit a study-period high, yet reserve additions from extensions and discoveries declined 11% year over year and failed to fully replace production volumes for the first time since 2021. Total capital expenditures fell 49% year over year, whilst M&A spending declined 70%. Exploration spending dropped 11% to $4.8 billion, representing only 3% of total capital expenditures. Natural gas showed stronger fundamentals, with production rising 18%, reserves increasing 14%, and discoveries up 21%.
Ernst & Young's US division is allocating $100 million this fiscal year to bonus payments rewarding employees who demonstrate adaptability, innovation, and judgement. Individual spot awards reach $500, whilst employees or teams making significant contributions can receive between $10,000 and $25,000, five times the previous programme's ceiling. The initiative also covers AI experimentation. "What we recognise signals what we value," said Ginnie Carlier, chief talent and culture officer for EY Americas. The bonuses form part of a broader strategy to reshape employee development across all career levels. Other professional services firms are pursuing similar approaches. KPMG restructured its audit internship this summer to emphasise critical thinking, whilst PwC US introduced training combining AI proficiency with human qualities like empathy. EY reported AI-related revenue grew 30% year-over-year in 2025.
EY-Parthenon has acquired SparkOptimus, a Dutch digital strategy consultancy founded in 2010. The Amsterdam-based firm employs around 50 consultants and specialises in AI transformation, digital business model redesign and technology-driven transformation. SparkOptimus founders Alexandra Jankovich and Tom Voskes, both former McKinsey consultants, said joining EY-Parthenon will create significant value for clients and staff whilst providing access to broader capabilities. The acquisition marks EY-Parthenon's first European deal since 2021. EY-Parthenon, established in 2014, is EY's strategy consulting and transactions advisory business with around 25,000 professionals globally. Mark Reich, Partner at EY-Parthenon Netherlands, said SparkOptimus' expertise will complement existing capabilities in the Dutch market. The deal closes on 1 September 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The UK Government has awarded a contract worth up to £456 million to KPMG and EY to train civil servants, the Financial Times reported, citing government procurement tracker Tussell. Under the arrangement, the firms will train officials across various skills areas, including AI, between 2026 and 2028. KPMG's share is capped at £319 million, representing almost a quarter of its total UK advisory net sales from last year. EY's portion is worth £137 million, equivalent to around 13% of its UK consulting revenue. The deal is the largest single contract awarded to Big Four companies since Tussell started tracking records in 2012. The previous record was a £322 million deal between the Foreign Office and PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2012.