Lead, Edge Security Ops- WAF and Email Security

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead, Edge Security Ops-WAF and Email Security

The Purpose of the Role

Looking for an energetic, hard charging individual able to keep up in an exciting and fast-moving Perimeter security team that is engaged in several high-profile security projects to enhance Fidelity’s security posture.  The candidate will be immersed in a quick changing environment in a very rapid changing threat landscape, working with numerous security professionals.  The qualified candidate must be adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced environment where learning new skills and understanding new system architectures quickly is a key to success.  The job involves performing functions related to Network and Perimeter specializion including Web Application Firewall, Email Security, IDS/IPS, Change Management.

The Value You Deliver

The Senior Cybersecurity Analyst will be working on Cyber defense team to ensure indications of compromise are promptly identified and stakeholders are informed with actionable and complete information.  This role will assist and coordinate with incident response staff, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and perimeter security teams during response activities and cyber investigations.  This position works closely with our ISO for each Business Unit and directly with internal and external customers.

• Create strong, defensible platform to protector customer data.
• Familiarity with external facing security controls that can stop external attacks that may occur: such as WAF tuning, Bot management, API protection, network policy governance, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Ability to make information security risk determinations based on intelligence analysis.
• Understanding cyber threats, malicious cyber threat actor motivations, and capabilities relevant to regions of interest.

Expertise we are looking for

Technical:

• Expert in Web Application Firewall (WAF) Engineer​ & WAF Rules Fine Tuning​.
• Strong experience in Email Security,  Email and Web Advance Threat Protection, DNS, DDoS, IDS/IPS and cloud security. Analyzing email, DNS and DDoS attack patterns to improve protections. Monitoring for baseline deviations for detecting external threat attacks and automate to proactively mitigate.  
• Layer 3 Firewall Rules Review and network Security is plus.

• Advance experience on Splunk or other SIEM (Security information and event management)  ​Monitoring.  Log Analysis Expertise​ - Email logs, IDS/IPS, NetFlow and Packet Analysis ​
• Perimeter and cloud security Expert with an outstanding understanding of the latest practices and trends in edge security.

• Reviewing policy enforcement change requests; interviewing submitters who have requested security configuration changes and require additional requirements gathering.

• Outstanding knowledge in Perimeter and cloud security
• Expertise in Perimeter Security Ops including WAF, API Security, Email Security

• Evaluating, deploying, and managing Akamai / AWS / Azure WAF security modules.
• Analyzing web and network traffic patterns to identify anomalies and improve protections.
• Reviewing policy enforcement change requests; interviewing submitters who have requested security configuration changes and require additional requirements gathering.
• Desired knowledge of additional tools that include:  Email Security (EOP), Network IDS/IPS (Firepower), WAF, DDoS Control and SIEM.

Behavioral

• Passionate about cyber security, motivated to continuously learn and share your knowledge
• Positive personality and can-do attitude; you also have good communication skills with an excellent command of the English language.
• Open-minded, empathic and a team-mate with a partnering approach and an enthusiastic and motivated personality, with demonstrated experience in solving complex challenges
• Intellectually curious and therefore remain abreast of new technologies and developments relating to technical products that might be used enterprise wide and software delivery methodologies
• Proficient in balancing business partner views and interests
• Team player with excellent interpersonal & communication skills (written and verbal)
• Technical and non-technical Stake holder management skills
• Work in high Pressure and Time bound situations.

The skills that are key to this Role

• 5 to 7 years of security experience desired, preferably in a matrix-driven corporate environment.
• 60% of your time will be in Perimeter Operations, 20% of your time will be to manage internal stakeholders and remaining in driving automation / AI  / New Control Implementation efforts
• Security experience with any WAF provider, API configuration and analyzing traffic logs.
• Strong understanding of core networking concepts (e.g. – TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, proxy, load-balancing, etc.).
• Functional experience with Splunk, SIEM, or other analysis technologies.
• Experience with cloud solutions such as AWS or other IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environments.
• Ability to interact with both technical and non-technical staff, including management and executives, with experience articulating technical material in business terms.
• Functional understanding of network controls and policies to combat cyber threats.

 How will the work impact the organization:

• 24X7 Edge security Operations on-call
• Reduce time to mitigate Edge cyber incidents
• Strengthen Edge security Défense posture
• Improve change success rate and enable operational efficiency
• Newer Controls , Inbound file malware, and PQC implementation
• Continue Improve change success rate and enable operational efficiency

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Information Technology