Onsite App Security Consultant - Akamai/Cloudflare WAF

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New York (NY)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 72,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

New Wave People is hiring an IT Application Security Consultant for an onsite role in Manhattan, NY. This is an on-premises consulting position focused on helping product teams strengthen application security across the SDLC and DevOps, with an emphasis on WAF-driven protections for high-value, cloud-hosted, externally facing applications.

You will provide security expertise spanning assessments, secure architecture reviews, and operational governance, while also supporting onboarding,

Qualifications

Cloudflare WAF: 5+ years hands-on experience with policies, rulesets, firewall rules, bot management, DNS, DDoS, and logpush.
Akamai WAF: 4+ years hands-on experience with KSD/Property Manager, Bot Manager, Edge DNS, and log staging/testing.
OWASP Top 10 understanding and secure development practices.
5+ years with SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Checkmarx, BurpSuite, Fortify.

Responsibilities

Deliver specialized security guidance to product teams, owners, infrastructure, and cybersecurity leadership.
Improve application security across the SDLC and DevOps with assessments, architecture reviews, tooling optimization, and governance.
Onboard, configure, tune, and monitor protections across Akamai WAF and Cloudflare WAF, ensuring coverage for high-value externally exposed apps.
Perform technical assessments to enable development teams with tooling support and governance.