Select Minds LLC

Security Engineer

• Lead onboarding and migration of applications onto Akamai CDN and WAF platforms.
• Configure, maintain, and support Akamai edge security and content delivery services.
• Implement and tune WAF policies, security controls, caching rules, and traffic management configurations.
• Work closely with application, network, cloud, and security teams to ensure secure and optimized application delivery.
• Troubleshoot complex Layer 1–7 issues involving DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, CDN behavior, caching, and origin connectivity.
• Support production incidents, root cause analysis, and operational escalations.
• Participate in on-call rotation and support maintenance activities during off-hour change windows.
• Develop technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and audit artifacts.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders on application onboarding and security initiatives.
• Support security assessments, audits, remediation activities, and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineering teams.

WAF/CDN Security Architect

QA Engineer

• Validate data pipelines for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness
• Build SQL-based validations for business rules and transformations
• Implement reconciliation between source and downstream systems
• Ensure data lineage and traceability
• Test pipelines built on AWS (Glue, Lambda, EMR, Step Functions)
• Validate transformations using SQL and Python
• Test ingestion, transformation, aggregation, and serving layers
• Handle backfills, reprocessing, and historical data loads
• Validate Spark pipelines (PySpark/Scala) on Databricks Streaming (Kafka)
• Validate data integrity, ordering, and delivery guarantees
• Test producer and consumer logic and serialization formats (Avro, JSON, Protobuf)
• Validate topics, partitions, offsets, retention, and schema evolution
• Simulate late events, duplicates, and failure scenarios
• Build Python-based data testing frameworks
• Develop reusable validation utilities and synthetic datasets
• Integrate data tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Enable automated alerts for data quality issues
• Validate throughput, latency, and concurrency at scale
• Test retry logic, idempotency, and recovery mechanisms
• Perform regression, soak, and failover testing
• Validate logs, metrics, and alerts using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Define and monitor data SLAs and SLOs
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems

WAF/CDN Security Architect

Data Quality Engineer