Azure WAF Security Engineer

***Fully remote position***
***Long Term Contract***
Responsibilities
Administer and maintain Azure Front Door WAF and Azure Application Gateway WAF policies, rulesets, exclusions, and custom signatures to protect web applications against OWASP Top 10 and emerging threats.
Coordinate with application teams to design protection profiles per app and/or per path, align rules with business requirements, and ensure safe rollouts.
Monitor WAF efficacy, coverage, and performance; analyze events and false positives; tune policies to reduce friction while maintaining strong protection.
Build and maintain Terraform modules for Azure Front Door and Application Gateway WAF resources, ensuring version-controlled deployments.
Operate CI/CD pipelines for GitHub-based deployments, including branching strategies, environment promotion, and rollback procedures.
Use Terraform code to define, validate, and deploy WAF configurations.
Respond to WAF-related tickets and inquiries using established TSSO processes; assist teams in interpreting WAF logs, diagnosing blocks, and resolving configuration challenges.
Provide clear guidance during incidents/outages, including rapid policy tuning, targeted rule adjustments, and coordination with application owners and Infrastructure & Operations.
Document operational standards, deployment runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and best
Provide operational support for additional security tools, including Proofpoint, Digital Guardian, Windows Certificate Services, Silverfort, Calico, F5 ASM, Rapid7 Nexpose, and Qualys.
Qualifications:
5+ years in application security, cloud security, or network security engineering roles.
Demonstrated success operating Azure WAF(Azure Front Door and/or Application Gateway).
Track record of building infrastructure-as-code for security controls and running Git-based deployment pipelines.
Hands-on administration of Azure Front Door WAF and Azure Application Gateway WAF (policy authoring, tuning, exclusions, custom rules).
Terraform expertise for Azure resources and GitHub deployments.
Proven ability to use code to configure Azure firewalls/WAFs.
Scripting skills to automate configuration, validations, and operational tasks (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
Strong understanding of web application security (OWASP Top 10, bot protection, API protection, TLS, header-based controls) and secure DevOps practices.