About the Role:
- Maintain enterprise best practice configurations & guidelines for WAF usage across TR
- Develop & maintain baseline WAF security rulesets based on vendor & TR best practices
- Support application team WAF onboarding with rule deployments, log enrichment & analysis, and rule recommendations based on analysis
- Consult with Cyber Defense (SOC, CIRT, Threat Detection) stakeholders to assist with operationalizing WAF alerting to SOC & supporting runbook development
- Effectively communicate technical concepts to business lines and stakeholders
- Collaborate with other security and network engineers to support other network security related projects such as network IDS/IPS, network DLP, and SSL inspection
- Collaborate with ISRM stakeholders such as security architecture, product security, incident response, and threat detection to ensure services are meeting stakeholder expectations
- Consult with application teams on supporting development of rate limiting & bot management rules
About you:
- Bachelor's degree preferred and/or 7+ years of relevant professional Network Security / Network Engineering experience
- Minimum of 5 years in network security with a strong focus on application layer security, with at least 2 years of working experience with WAF solutions
- Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10 and experience testing the most common injection vulnerabilities: Cross-site Scripting (XSS), XML External Entities (XXE), SQL Injection (SQLi), OS Command Injection.
- Understanding of Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS attacks at the Network, Transport and Application layer.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python and additionally Powershell
- Proven experience with maintaining enterprise WAF capabilities with providers such as Cloudflare, Mod Security or cloud native WAF services such as AWS WAF
- In-depth knowledge of security principles, protocols, and best practices.
- Proficient in analyzing large datasets using tools like Splunk, Datadog, or other SIEM/logging technologies
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and/or OCI.
- Ability to work independently while driving projects to conclusion
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience testing less common injection vulnerabilities: Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF), Server Side Template Injection (SSTI), Insecure Deserialization, LDAP Injection, NoSQL Injection, Expression Language Injection.
- Experience with configuration management through git based source control
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM or Bicep.
- Experience with other network security technologies such as IDS/IPS, NextGen Firewalls, network DLP, and SSL inspection capabilities.
- Understanding of network transport protocols and services (TCP/IP, syslog, DNS, VLANs, VRF, SFTP, SSH, PKI, etc)
- Unix/Linux knowledge, can operate in a Linux environment
What's in it For You
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
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- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters caf networking.
- Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
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