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Cyber Security Platform Engineer, Web Application Firewall

  • United States
  • Infra / Networks / Telecom

Job description

Responsibilities

As a Cyber Security Platform Engineer for Web Application Firewall technologies, you'll be responsible for scaling, operating, and improving the WAF platforms that protect some of the world's best known brands and websites. You'll be joining NBCUniversal Cyber Security at an exciting time where we transition to more proactive defenses and keeping our web properties safe is a huge part of that.

This position is available in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Universal City, CA.

Responsibilities
·  Support and enable the secure delivery of NBCUniversal websites and applications to other businesses and consumers
·  Deliver consistent functionality and availability of our global Web Application Firewall and DDOS-protection operations
·  Provide excellent support and service to business customers / website operators and the incident response team – help share knowledge, and assist in supporting and tuning WAF configurations based on observed security patterns
·  Establish and follow consistent processes to ensure health and stability of WAF platforms and build monitoring to proactively identify potential issues
·  Configure and enable new sites / applications for WAF protections – including integration, synthesis, and analysis of static and dynamic vulnerability scan information
·  Facilitate knowledge sharing by creating and maintaining detailed documentation and diagrams, while also collaborating with other team members on standard processes and technology roadmaps.
·  Participate in an on-call rotation for support of systems outside of normal business hours, and be available to perform maintenance and critical operations as needed
·  This position will require occasional business travel
Job Number

40249BR
Posting Category

Technology/Engineering
Country

United States
Sub-Business

Technology
About Us

At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.
State/Province

California
Career Level

Experienced
Qualifications/Requirements

Qualifications:
• Substantial knowledge and experience with cloud-based Web Application Firewall technologies
• Understanding of web application security - comfort digesting application vulnerabilities (such as SQLi, XSS, authentication bypass, etc.) and crafting mitigations
• Sense of risk tradeoffs, and balancing potential business impact with security protections
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of network routing, DNS, and firewalls, and an understanding of how they all interact with internet traffic
• Familiarity with web and application server platforms (eg. Apache, nginx, IIS, Tomcat, Websphere, etc.)
• Fluence in web transactions – ability to piece together a connection based on logs or pcap
• Comfort and experience with network and web application troubleshooting
• Strong sense of urgency and commitment – able to meet deadlines and ensure work matches defined objectives
• Highly collaborative; personally, and professionally self-aware; able to and interested in interacting with employees at all levels; embody integrity; and represent and inspire the highest ethical standards

Additional Job Requirements:
• Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
• Must be willing to work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ or Universal City, CA
Desired Characteristics

• Direct experience with Akamai and/or Cloudflare CDNs
• Experience with F5 Application Security Manager
• Experience working in security engineering or operations – building, managing, or using security technologies in a business environment. Bonus points for threat-centric, intelligence-based security operations.
• Comfort and enthusiasm using automation to solve problems
• Interest in emerging technologies, passion for experimenting and pushing technology into “off label” uses in enterprise defense
City

Universal City
Notices

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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