Technical 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 services RESPONSIBILITIES  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 activities 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  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 customer’s 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.g. GitHub, Jira, Confluence) preferable  Beneficial to have a good understanding on external Cloud Service Providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) Show more Show less