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McDonald's Cyber Engineer III - API Security in Ciudad de México, Mexico
The Senior Engineer, Application & API Security is a key member of the E-WAAP team and serves as a technical lead for our Akamai-based web and API security platform. You will:
Lead onboarding of new applications and APIs onto Akamai (WAF, CDN, bot, and API security capabilities).
Design and tune security policies to protect against OWASP Top 10, API abuse, bots, and DDoS while preserving performance and user experience.
Partner with product teams, developers, and cloud teams to embed E-WAAP into CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows.
This role reports into the G5 Manager, Application & API Security (E-WAAP) and will provide coaching and technical direction to G3 Engineers and G2/G3 Analysts as we in-source capabilities from our managed services provider.
Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
Platform engineering & design
Lead the onboarding of new web and API workloads to Akamai, from discovery and architecture review to staging, validation, and production cutover.
Design and implement WAF, bot management, DDoS, and rate-limiting policies tailored to application risk profiles and business requirements.
Build reusable configuration patterns, templates, and reference architectures for common McDonald’s application types (e.g., marketing sites, e-commerce, APIs, partner integrations).
Use Akamai APIs, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Python, CI/CD pipelines) to manage configurations at scale.
Security operations & tuning
Lead incident triage and investigations for WAF, API, and bot-related events; coordinate containment, tuning, and long-term fixes.
Analyze WAF and CDN logs to identify attacks, false positives, and evasion attempts; refine policies, exception sets, and custom rules.
Collaborate with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, and product security teams to map emerging threats into new or updated rulesets.
Drive continuous improvement in detection quality, block rates, and false-positive reduction while maintaining performance SLAs.
Dev & automation focus
Partner with developers to integrate Akamai security checks into CI/CD (e.g., automated policy promotions, pre-prod validation jobs, automated regression checks).
Develop internal tools and scripts (Python, Bash, TypeScript, etc.) to streamline common workflows (policy cloning, bulk updates, configuration linting).
Provide technical requirements and guidance into product roadmaps for observability, logging, and security analytics.
Governance, metrics, and leadership
Own platform health and risk metrics (coverage, rule adoption, false positives, incident volume, MTTR) and present them regularly to leadership and stakeholders.
Lead operational governance forums with product teams to review posture, tuning backlog, and upcoming changes.
Mentor and coach G3 Engineers and Analysts; provide guidance on investigations, change reviews, and documentation.
Contribute to and lead updates of SOPs, intake processes, runbooks, and standards for Akamai and E-WAAP.
Requsition ID: REF9603T_744000100407506