Remote Cloud WAF & Load Balancer Engineer

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical plan

Dental plan

Phone allowance

Home internet allowance

Retirement plan

Job summary

GuidePoint Security in the United States is seeking an edge security engineer to design and operate cloud-based WAF, DDoS protection, bot controls, and CDN configurations for enterprise and managed-service environments.

You will work with application, DevOps, and network teams, tune security rules, optimize routing and availability, document runbooks, and support migrations of on-prem app delivery to cloud-based equivalents. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• : 2–4 years experience with cloud WAF or DDoS in enterprise settings.
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• Hands-on with Cloudflare or Akamai edge protection and custom traffic rules.
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• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, routing, NAT, and load balancing.
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• Experience with application delivery controllers such as F5 BIG-IP, including iRules and WAF features.
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• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills across application and network layers.
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• Willingness to use emerging tools, including AI tools, to improve problem solving and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage cloud WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot protection, and CDN configurations.
• Create and tune security and traffic rules, including rate limits, filtering logic, and platform-specific rule sets.
• Optimize routing, failover, load balancing, latency, and availability for application traffic.
• Assess edge configurations, investigate security or performance issues, and support response to DDoS activity or WAF bypass attempts.
• Document configurations and prepare operational runbooks for client or support-team handoffs.
• Help migrate or integrate on-premises application delivery systems, translating custom logic to cloud-based equivalents.

Skills

Cloud WAF

DDoS platforms

Cloudflare/Akamai

Networking fundamentals

F5 BIG-IP

iRules/SSL offloading

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

AI tools usage

Tools

F5 BIG-IP

iRules

SSL offloading

Job description

GuidePoint Security in the United States is seeking an edge security engineer to design and operate cloud-based WAF, DDoS protection, bot controls, and CDN configurations for enterprise and managed-service environments.

You will work with application, DevOps, and network teams, tune security rules, optimize routing and availability, document runbooks, and support migrations of on-prem app delivery to cloud-based equivalents. Travel up to 25% may be required.