WAF Akamai Engineer|Remote|Long Term Contract

Job description
Job Description-

Scope:
• Work as part of the global Network Security team – works alongside the WAF team.
• Work with and guide global tech functions to migrate a suite of 5000 hosted apps to WAF. Will role out in phases e.g start off with 100 out of 5000 domain names.
• Once migration work is complete, review logs, implement tuning, web blocking etc.
• 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

Skills / experience required:
• Web network security / WAF SME with ability to be hands on.
• Experience with Akamai or similar platform e.g radware, 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