AWS Web Application Firewall Engineer

Role: AWS Web Application Firewall Engineer

Location – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote - Atlanta, GA Duration:10+ Months

Role Responsibilities

Engineer, operate and optimize AWS WAF, Firewall Manager policies, bot mitigation controls and Shield Advanced protections. Support threat detection, rule tuning, log analysis, and response activities across business-critical applications. Maintain and enhance security controls embedded in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring secure design, development, deployment and monitoring of application workloads. Provide advanced technical guidance to application teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise cloud.

Required Skills: Hands-on expertise with AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Common Bot Control, and AWS Shield Advanced protections. Ability to support real-time incident response, including rapid rule tuning, mitigation actions, and traffic analysis Strong proficiency in creating and maintaining WAF policies, rule groups, and bot-mitigation controls across multi-account environments Solid understanding of application-layer security, OWASP Top 10 threats, bot traffic patterns, and L7 DDoS

Preferred Skills: Terraform experience Experience using Splunk and ServiceNow Prior experience with Wiz