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Closed on August 28, 2026.

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Job Description

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer focusing on Web Application and Network Protection leads the design, implementation, administration, and ongoing support of enterprise web and network security solutions.

Role Overview

  • Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid)
  • Employment Type: Temp-to-Hire
  • Duration: 12 Month
  • Hourly Salary: USD 60 - 67

Responsibilities

  • Lead the setup, configuration, ongoing administration, and support of the F5 Distributed Cloud XC Web Application Firewall
  • Tune and maintain WAF policies, signatures, and related security controls
  • Deploy and oversee API protection measures
  • Configure and manage bot mitigation capabilities
  • Implement and supervise DDoS protection strategies
  • Establish and enforce geolocation based access policies
  • Configure rate limiting to regulate traffic flow
  • Create and manage custom WAF challenges
  • Optimize WAF policies to reduce false positives
  • Assist onboarding of applications into WAF services
  • Conduct policy reviews and pursue continual optimization
  • Participate in incident response for web application attacks
  • Protect enterprise applications against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
  • Guard against injection attacks targeting enterprise applications
  • Mitigate credential stuffing threats
  • Counter clickjacking risks
  • Prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
  • Guard against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks
  • Review application architectures and recommend security improvements
  • Collaborate with development teams during onboarding and troubleshooting of applications
  • Support and manage Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW)
  • Implement and maintain network segmentation
  • Configure Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPNs
  • Manage firewall rules and network security policies
  • Implement security controls and perform network troubleshooting
  • Respond to security incidents and participate in an on-call rotation
  • Monitor and report on enterprise security posture
  • Automate repetitive security operations where feasible
  • Engage in Incident Response activities
  • Conduct threat hunting and security assessments
  • Remediate vulnerabilities and perform root cause analysis
  • Perform security architecture reviews

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience: 5+ years of cybersecurity or network security experience
  • WAF: 3+ years of hands-on Web Application Firewall experience

Technologies

  • F5 Distributed Cloud XC WAF
  • Palo Alto Networks NGFW and Firewalls
  • HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/SSL
  • REST APIs, DNS
  • Load Balancing, VPN Technologies
  • WAF Policy Management, API Protection, Bot Defense, DDoS Protection
  • Vulnerability Management

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