Who We Are
We’re Dealer Tire , a family-owned, international distributor of tires and parts established in 1918 in Cleveland, OH. We’re laser focused on helping the world’s largest and most trusted auto manufacturers grow their tire business—in fact, we’ve sold more than 60 million tires to date. We’re a thriving company, and we’re looking for driven individuals to join our team. That’s where you come in!
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The Principal Architect, Security & Performance serves as a technical authority and individual contributor across the Dealer Tire Consumer eCommerce Group (CEG), spanning both the Dealer Tire and SimpleTire platforms. This role is primarily focused on designing a bulletproof security posture to satisfy strict OEM contractual data obligations, architecting resilient cloud environments, and driving code-level application performance and database stability that adhere to established enterprise standards.
As a Principal Architect, Security & Performance , your essential job functions will include the following:
- Partner with the broader enterprise Dealer Tire security teams to continuously monitor, evaluate, and harden the collective security posture across all consumer-facing digital applications.
- Serve as the principal subject matter expert (SME) for all cloud installations, consumer data privacy safeguards, PII protection, and PCI compliance requirements and provide high-level technical blueprinting and structural signoffs for annual SOC 2 and PCI security lifecycles.
- Review complex pull requests, infrastructure scripts, and third-party vendor integrations to ensure alignment with master architecture guidelines.
- Identify, prototype, and champion the introduction of cutting-edge tech stacks, edge-computing practices, and optimization methods that drive organizational value.
- Function as an elite advisory consultant to the SRE, Core Systems, and DevOps management layers as needed for Infrastructure.
Security Architecture
- Design, deploy, and maintain advanced edge security configurations within Akamai, directly owning the architecture for Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule sets, Bot Management defense strategies, and comprehensive DDoS/DoS mitigation layers.
- Proactively analyze edge security logs and threat intelligence to build real-time protective policies against credential stuffing, malicious scraping, API abuse, and application-layer exploits across all digital touchpoints.
- In coordination with the Enterprise Security team, Architect and enforce security protocols for the isolated Dealer Tire and SimpleTire AWS environments to fulfill data privacy mandates with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
- Implement a thorough Security Management process to keep the CEG environments secure from potential harm.
Application Performance & Database Optim