Contract - Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, WAF and Tooling

Remote • Posted 30+ days ago • Updated 7 days ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
Remote
Depends on Experience
Fitment

Dice Job Match Score™

🔢 Crunching numbers...

Job Details

Skills

  • engineer
  • cybersecurity
  • WAF
  • azure
  • front door
  • IaC
  • terraform
  • CI/CD
  • jenkins
  • ansible
  • firewalls
  • cloud
  • python
  • powershell
  • devops
  • github

Summary

Contract Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, WAF and Tooling

Rate: Open

Location: Remote

Duration: 12+ months

 

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of related experience in the following:
  • 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.

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.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: napil006
  • Position Id: 8861948
  • Posted 30+ days ago
Create job alert
Set job alertNever miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.

Similar Jobs

Remote

Today

Easy Apply

Contract

Depends on Experience

Remote

4d ago

Easy Apply

Contract, Third Party

$60 - $80

Remote

4d ago

Easy Apply

Contract

Depends on Experience

Remote

Today

Easy Apply

Contract, Third Party

Depends on Experience

Search all similar jobs