Remote Load Balancer & WAF Engineer — Cloud Edge Security

GuidePoint Security LLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option (US-based)

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Paid holidays

Flexible time off

Internet/phone allowance

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Load Balancer / WAF Engineer to design, deploy and manage cloud-based security platforms, including WAF, DDoS mitigation, and bot protection for enterprise clients. You will work across Cloudflare, Akamai, and CDN configurations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure internet-facing architectures.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, documentation, and the ability to translate on‑prem F5 familiarity into cloud WAF solutions.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of cloud WAF/DDoS experience in enterprise environments.
• Deep familiarity with Cloudflare and/or Akamai edge protection services.
• Experience building custom page rules, rate limits or traffic filtering logic.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based security platforms, including WAF, DDoS, bot protection, and CDN configuration (Cloudflare, Akamai).
• Build and manage custom rules (page rules, rate limits, transform rules, iRules) to enforce security policies and traffic optimization.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure secure and resilient internet-facing traffic flow.
• Optimize configurations for latency, performance and availability, including global traffic routing, failover and load balancing.
• Support incident response for DDoS events or WAF bypass attempts.
• Document configurations and provide runbooks for client handoffs or internal teams.
• Conduct WAF and edge security assessments to identify improvements or misconfigurations.
• Assist in migration/integration with on-prem platforms like F5, translating to cloud WAF equivalents.

Skills

Cloud WAF

DDoS mitigation

Cloudflare

Akamai

iRules

F5 BIG-IP

Terraform

Networking basics

Troubleshooting

AI tools

Tools

F5 BIG-IP

Terraform

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a Load Balancer / WAF Engineer to design, deploy and manage cloud-based security platforms, including WAF, DDoS mitigation, and bot protection for enterprise clients. You will work across Cloudflare, Akamai, and CDN configurations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure internet-facing architectures.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, documentation, and the ability to translate on‑prem F5 familiarity into cloud WAF solutions.