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WAF Engineer - Insurance

Lorien
London Contract
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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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