Cyber Security Specialist

POSITION :

The role is for an IT Cyber / Web Security specialist who will be working as part of the Edge Perimeter Security team.

Responsible for delivery of layer 7 WAF protections across our critical web :

• Consult with Cybersecurity and application teams to deliver WAF protections for our critical applications.
• Develop automation capabilities to reduce infrastructure complexity and manual effort.
• 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.
• Collaborate and communicate with business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Review of attack mitigations and improvements.
• Planning, conception and implementation in case of maintenance :
• 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.
• Network Layer Security Protections : Radware, Cloud / Akamai.
• Knowledge and awareness with Security aspects, attacks and mitigations, compliance, vulnerability.
• Preferred experience working in a large Global Financial organisation.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) are a must.
• Rigorous attention to detail, strong organisational skills and able to work to tight deadlines.
• Confident working both independently and collaboratively across internal, external and hybrid global teams.
• Proactive and passionate mindset with an inquisitive nature to understand the customers environment in an approachable manner.
• Have the ability to propose alternative solutions to a problem whilst working collaboratively with other team members.
• Flexible approach to working hours after hours support during delivery.
• Preferred experience working with automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, CI / CD.
• Experience working with DevOps tools (e. GitHub, Jira, Confluence) preferable.
• Beneficial to have a good understanding on external Cloud Service Providers (e. AWS, GCP, Azure).

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