Job Title: CYBER SECURITY ANALYST L4 (CONTRACT)
Location: Bristol, State/Province: Bristol
Posting Start Date: 5/8/26
Job Description
JD: Halifax/Bristol
In‑Scope Technologies/Products
* 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 ACLs
* Zero Trust Architecture
* Load Balancing
* Threat Intelligence, SIEM Data and Traffic Reporting
* Proxies and Reverse Proxies to manage Ingress/Egress
* Cloud infrastructure, particularly
Scope of Services
* 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.
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