Lorien
WAF Engineer – Insurance
We are currently recruiting for a WAF Engineer with strong Web Application Firewall experience particularly within Azure environments to join one of our Insurance clients on a 6-month contract.
Inside IR35 / Hybrid – adhoc travel to London
Experience
- 3- 5 years hands-on experience implementing WAF technologies within Azure (Azure WAF / Front Door / App Gateway)
- Ideally similar experience in other cloud environments (Azure WAF / Front Door / App Gateway, AWS WAF, GCP Cloud Armor)
- Strong understanding of HTTP/S protocols and Layer 7 security controls (how WAF protects web traffic vs other network layers)
- Experience with WAF policy tuning and optimisation, including managing rule sets, handling false positives, and improving protection posture
- Familiarity with cloud networking constructs (VNets/VPCs, routing, load balancers, private endpoints, segmentation)
- Knowledge of common web application attack techniques (e.g. OWASP Top 10: injection, XSS, API abuse) and mitigation approaches
- Experience working with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation) for WAF deployment and policy management
- Ability to analyse logs and security telemetry (WAF logs, SIEM integration) to identify threats and drive remediation
- Exposure to firewalls, DDoS protection, and broader network security controls in cloud environments
- Strong collaboration skills, working with AppDev, Cloud Engineering, and Security teams to enforce controls without blocking delivery
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG – The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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