WAF Engineer_8+years_Remote

Role: WAF Engineer

Hiretype: Contract

Duration:12+months

Notice period: Immediate to 15 days

Scope:

• Work as part of the global Network Security team – works alongside the WAF team.
• Work with and guide global tech functions to migrate global suite of hosted apps to WAF.
• Mapping of IP addresses / FQDNs to services and applications (BA)
• Liaising with service owners and / or associated teams to gather relevant application data for WAF migration purposes (BA)
• Analysing web behaviour and performance to establish acceptable application thresholds (SME)
• Performing policy tuning in accordance with performance baselining (SME)
• Transitioning WAF from transparent to enforcement mode (SME)
• Data cleansing and validation
• Review WAF Logs and implement best Akamai defence tools
• Support an troubleshoot work.

Skills / experience required:

• Web network security / WAF SME with ability to be hands on.
• Ideally experience with Akamai Kona or Kona site defender etc
• SME – consultative person.
• Experience in onboarding web services into WAF (Akamai) platforms in monitoring / transparent mode (SME)
• Finding vulnerabilities in WAF logs
• Implement best web security practices

Candidate should have strong experience in WAF Akamai onboarding, CDN configurations, Implementing Akamai defence tooling.