Cyber Security Engineer - Network
HybridSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Design, deploy, and support Web Application Firewall and DDoS protection services across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Develop and tune WAF policies, rule sets, and security controls while engineering solutions to detect, prevent, and respond to DDoS attacks. Monitor traffic, analyze threats, and investigate complex security incidents by implementing bot management, API protection, rate limiting, and advanced traffic controls. Strengthen cyber defense capability through SIEM integrations and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborate with Network, Cloud, Application, and Security Operations teams to onboard new services and enhance security controls. This 24-month Max Term Contract requires hands-on experience with TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, and OWASP threats.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in network security engineering, WAF, DDoS protection, cloud security or application delivery
- Strong experience implementing and operating enterprise WAF platforms
- Practical experience mitigating network, protocol and application-layer DDoS attacks
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, DNS, load balancing, routing, reverse proxies and CDN technologies
- Experience protecting web applications and APIs against OWASP threats, bots and malicious traffic
- Strong troubleshooting and traffic analysis skills across network, application and security layers
- Strong stakeholder management, incident response and technical communication skills
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