Cyber Security Analyst L4

Job Description

JD: Halifax/Bristol

In-scope technologies/products:

 Supporting Products within the Digital Edge & Cyber Security Product Offerings -

- Mainly CDN to secure and optimise the banking infrastructure

- SSL Handshake

- EDGE load implementation for Web Apps        

Skillsets required:       

Understanding of Networking and Cybersecurity principles including -

- DNS Resolution and IP

- HTTP/S Methods, Headers, Status Codes

- TCP handshake

- OSI Model and Communications Framework

- Attack Vectors and Methods such as DDoS, SQL, CSS, CMD Injection, LFI and Web Protocol Attacks, Botnet

- Certificates and TLS Encryption

- Caching and Storage on Edge

- Content Delivery Network and Edge Computing

- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and ACL's

- Zero Trust Architecture

- Load Balancing

- Threat Intelligence, SIEM Data and Traffic Reporting

- Proxies and Reverse Proxies to manage Ingress/Egress

- Cloud infrastructure, particularly          

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cope of services:

Mainly via CDN to secure and optimise the banking infrastructure:

- Ability to carry out WAF/Security/Bot Manager Reviews Inspection of traffic to the edge and origin to determine threats/vulnerabilities

- Implement Alerting and Monitoring appropriate for system errors and threats

- Generation and Upload of Certificates for SSL handshake

- Implement load balancing capabilities at the Edge for Web Apps

- Implement path based routing of client traffic to relevant infrastructure

- Proactively manage security configurations associated with hostnames by interacting with the application teams for max availability, smallest attack surface prioritisation

- Ability to implement caching and storage

- Ability to edit/Implement sorry pages that handle errors effectively on Net storage based on use case

- Validation and implementation of different HTTP methods based on Application requirements - security implications of this and mitigation

- Respond to both production and pre-production incidents in a timely manner.

- Support teams on digital modernisation journey with technical debugging both in the Akamai layer and downstream infrastructure 

Mandatory Skills: Akamai WAF .