Application Security Consultant

V Group Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

V Group Inc is seeking an Application Security Consultant for an on‑premises contract role in New York City. The consultant will protect applications across the SDLC, implement secure architecture reviews, and optimize tooling.

The position requires onsite work and expertise with WAF platforms (Cloudflare, Akamai) and security monitoring. The role includes hands‑on assessments, coaching development teams, and building repeatable governance and metrics to ensure strong security coverage for

Qualifications

• 5+ years Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare WAF.
• 4+ Hands‑on experience with Akamai WAF.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10 and secure development practices.
• 5+ Experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Checkmarx, BurpSuite, Fortify, or equivalents.
• Experience analyzing HTTP traffic, headers, payloads, and attack vectors.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, SaaS) and modern architectures.
• Experience integrating or consuming security telemetry to build dashboards and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized security expertise to support product teams, owners, infrastructure, and cybersecurity leadership.
• Strengthen application security across the SDLC and DevOps through assessments and architecture reviews.
• Onboard, configure, tune, and monitor protections across Akamai and Cloudflare WAF platforms.
• Ensure consistent security coverage across high‑value, cloud‑hosted, and externally facing applications.
• Perform technical assessments, enabling development teams through tooling and coaching.
• Establish repeatable processes, metrics, and governance.

Skills

Cloudflare WAF

Akamai WAF

OWASP Top 10

SAST/DAST/SCA tools

HTTP traffic analysis

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Security telemetry & dashboards

Job description

Job Title: Application Security Consultant

Location: 2 Broadway NYC NY (10004)

Duration: 12+ Months

Position Type: Contract

Interview Mode: Webcam or In Person

*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE CONSULTANT TO WORK ONSITE*

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 high‑value, cloud‑hosted, 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.

Technical Skills

• 1. 5+ years Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies, rulesets, firewall rules, bot management, DNS, DDoS, logpush).
• 2. 4+ Hands‑on 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.
• 7. Experience integrating or consuming security telemetry from WAFs, scanners, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud logs to build dashboards and metrics.

V Group Inc. is an IT Services company which supplies IT staffing, project management, and delivery services in software, network, help desk and all IT areas. Our primary focus is the public sector including state and federal contracts. We have multiple awards/ contracts with the following states: AR, CA, DE, FL, GA, IL, KY, MD, ME, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, VA, and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group, or in partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant.

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Website: www.vgroupinc.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/v-group/