Description
Contract Assignment - WAF Engineer (Web Application Firewall) Security Engineer
Day Rate - £ a day (Inside of IR35 Determination)
Duration - 3 months initial contract (extendable)
Start Date - ASAP
Location - Remote
Reference: 13282
*Must have Financial Services Experience*
ASSIGNMENT
- The assignment is for an IT Network Security specialist who will be working as part of the Edge Perimeter Security team with large Banking Organisation
- Responsible for delivery of layer 7 WAF (web Application Firewall) protections across critical web services
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Consult with Cybersecurity and application teams to deliver WAF protections for our critical applications
- Deliver on premise configuration across F5, DNS, and routing and switching environments.Can consider WAF engineers with experience across any platform.
- Work with vendor Akamai to deliver WAF/BOT protections
- Continuous development, implementation of control enhancements
- Troubleshooting and vendor management in case of error in the environment and functionality
- Create documentation for the team which is helpful to do the job
- Ensure that Service Delivery Targets are met for services
- Develop automation capabilities to reduce infrastructure complexity and manual effort
- Collaborate and communicate with business stakeholders and IT teams
- Review of attack mitigations and improvements
- Planning, conception and implementation in case of maintenance activities
- Analyse, support and advise in business
REQUIREMENTS
Strong experience with the following technologies:
- Application Level & Bot Security Protections: Akamai (also known as Akamai Kona or Akamai Kona Site Defender)
- Load Balancing: F5 LTM, GTM, ASM
- DNS: Qip
- Network Layer Security Protections: Radware, Cloud/Akamai
- Routing and Switching: Cisco
- IPv6 Migrations
Knowledge and awareness with Security aspects, attacks and mitigations, compliance, vulnerability
Must have relevant experience working in a large Global Financial organisation
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.