WAF Security Analyst III

About the role

The WAF Security Analyst III is responsible for providing enterprise security solutions for business, regulatory, and legal requirements, and assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets, with a focus on Web Application Firewall, DoS, BOT mitigation, CDN, and application security protections.

Responsibilities

• Participates and completes tasks associated with the implementations for systems and network and Web Application Firewall security technologies; executes testing plans; coordinates and prepares reporting of data security events and incidents; provides system and network architecture support; provides technical support to business and technology associates.
• Provides trouble resolution on complex issues, including WAF, web traffic, false positive, application protection, and security event issues.
• Performs system, network and WAF upgrade tasks.
• Designs and analyzes vendor services and information security requirements; maintains relationship with key vendors, including WAF, CDN, DoS, BOT mitigation, and application security technology providers.
• Participates and completes lights-on initiatives to consolidate equipment and/or implement business relocations.
• Performs complex configuration changes to meet business and information security requirements, including configuration of new sites and applications for WAF protection.
• Performs capacity analysis; recommends and implements capacity increases.
• Responds to Level 3 and 4 change and problem requests; leads Level 1 and 2 incident recoveries and root cause analysis.
• Analyzes, configures, tests, documents, deploys, maintains, patches, and troubleshoots WAF rules/signatures, security processes, controls, and products to mitigate threats and implement best practices.
• Works with application developers, developer teams, technical peers, business peers, security analysts, and leaders to analyze, prioritize, support, and resolve events, WAF configurations, application remediation, and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 3 years of experience in a support and operations or design and engineering role; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Experiences and Competencies

• Experience supporting application security or Web Application Firewall technologies preferred.
• Experience with cybersecurity, privacy principles, threats, vulnerabilities, risk management, and IT security methods, including firewalls, DMZ, encryption, and SSL certificates.
• Experience with network security architecture concepts and protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, and IAM/directory services.
• Experience working with industry standard Web Application Firewall solutions, such as Cloudflare, Akamai, F5 Networks, Imperva, Fastly, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of Layer 7 security attacks and application security vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25, XSS, SQLi, command injection, remote code execution, CSRF/SSRF, CVEs, and CWEs.
• Basic understanding of CDN and caching techniques, load balancing, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Oracle Cloud.
• Technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner) strongly preferred.

Benefits

Includes a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Pay

Details on pay structure and schedule can be provided upon request.

Schedule

Associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.