Web App Defense Analyst | WAF & Incident Response

The Onset; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

The Onset is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to defend our web applications. You’ll investigate attacks against web apps, analyse application, server and traffic logs, piece together what happened and help the team respond.

You’ll write and fine-tune Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to improve protection, and apply OWASP Top 10 knowledge. Strong log analysis, HTTP/HTTPS understanding, and experience with Splunk and Akamai/CDN are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing web application attacks.
• Knowledge of web app architecture and vulnerabilities.
• Experience tuning and writing WAF rules.

Responsibilities

• Investigate attacks against web applications and logs.
• Analyse application, server, authentication and traffic logs.
• Write and tune WAF rules to improve protection.
• Collaborate with incident response and engineering teams.

Skills

Log analysis

Web app security

OWASP Top 10

WAF tuning

HTTP/HTTPS understanding

Tools

Splunk

Akamai CDN

Job description

The Onset is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to defend our web applications. You’ll investigate attacks against web apps, analyse application, server and traffic logs, piece together what happened and help the team respond.

You’ll write and fine-tune Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to improve protection, and apply OWASP Top 10 knowledge. Strong log analysis, HTTP/HTTPS understanding, and experience with Splunk and Akamai/CDN are highly valued.