Application Security Consultant(5896-1)
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
- The application security consultant role is an on-premises position.
- The consultant will provide specialized security expertise to support product teams product owners infrastructure and cybersecurity leadership.
- This role strengthens application security across the SDLC and DevOps through assessments secure architecture reviews tooling optimization and operational governance.
- The consultant will also play a key role in onboarding configuring tuning and monitoring protections across Akamai and Cloudflare WAF platforms ensuring consistent security coverage across highvalue cloudhosted and externally facing applications.
- Additionally the consultant is expected to perform technical assessments enabling development teams through tooling and coaching and helping establish repeatable processes metrics and governance.
Required Skills:
1. 5 years Handson experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies rulesets firewall rules bot management DNS DDoS logpush). 2. 4 Handson experience with Akamai WAF (KSD/Property Manager Bot Manager Edge DNS log staging/testing). 3. Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10 application security principles secure development practices. 4. 5 Experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Checkmarx BurpSuite Fortify or equivalents. 5. Experience analyzing HTTP traffic headers payloads and attack vectors (XSS SQLi RCE deserialization CSRF SSRF etc.). 6. Experience with cloud platforms (Azure AWS SaaS) and modern application architectures.
Required Education:
Preferred masters or bachelors in computer science or a related field.