Blackcanyonconsulting
Web Service Protection Engineer
Bethesda, MD · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 16 days ago
PythonC++BashNode.jsDjangoMachine LearningCybersecurityFirewallLoad BalancingPublic HealthResearch
About the role
- This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD.
- NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!
Responsibilities
- Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Web Service Protection Engineer to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Develop and own protection metrics and alerting - build dashboards and alert pipelines that surface anomalies across a range of network and application-layer signals.
- Perform deep log analysis to identify overuse, scraping, abuse, DDoS, and attack patterns across millions of daily requests.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of high-volume web service architecture - how traffic flows, where bottlenecks and abuse vectors appear, and how load balancers and edge infrastructure make routing decisions.
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider's security and networking stack, including:
- Experience analyzing traffic using network and application-layer signals including address-based, organizational, and transport-layer fingerprinting methods.
- Familiarity with common web server platforms, their log formats, and configuration.
- Ability to read, write, and tune access control and rate-limiting rules under pressure.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills:
Skills
- Experience with advanced abuse mitigation techniques, including traffic redirection and challenge-response mechanisms.
- Scripting or automation experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for log parsing and rule generation.
- Prior work protecting high-traffic government or research platforms.
- Familiarity with evolving attacker tradecraft and how modern scrapers and abusers adapt to countermeasures.
- Benefits and Salary
Compensation
- Benefits and Salary
Benefits
- Support protection across a mixed cloud and on-premises infrastructure - NCBI operates services in both environments, and protection coverage must extend consistently across both.
Company info
- We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and location.
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