Job Description
*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE CONSULTANT TO WORK ONSITE*
M-F 37.5 weekly
.30 Minute Unpaid Lunch Break
No Holiday work, Overtime or travel required
No Parking Provided
The Application Security Consultant role is an on-premises position. The consultant will provide specialized security expertise to support product teams, product owners, infrastructure, and cybersecurity leadership. This role strengthens application security across the SDLC and DevOps through assessments, secure architecture reviews, tooling optimization, and operational governance. The consultant will also play a key role in onboarding, configuring, tuning, and monitoring protections across Akamai and Cloudflare WAF platforms, ensuring consistent security coverage across high value, cloud hosted, and externally facing applications.
Additionally, the consultant is expected to perform technical assessments, enabling development teams through tooling and coaching, and helping establish repeatable processes, metrics, and governance.
Technical Skills
1. 5+ years Hands on experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies, rulesets, firewall rules, bot management, DNS, DDoS, logpush).
2. 4+ Hands on experience with Akamai WAF (KSD/Property Manager, Bot Manager, Edge DNS, log staging/testing).
3. Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, application security principles, secure development practices.
4. 5+ Experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Checkmarx, BurpSuite, Fortify, or equivalents.
5. Experience analyzing HTTP traffic, headers, payloads, and attack vectors (XSS, SQLi, RCE, deserialization, CSRF, SSRF, etc.).
6. Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, SaaS) and modern application architectures.
7. Experience integrating or consuming security telemetry from WAFs, scanners, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud logs to build dashboards and metrics.
Salary commensurate with scope of work job experience
Perform other reasonably related duties as required.
New Wave People is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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M-F 37.5 weekly
.30 Minute Unpaid Lunch Break
No Holiday work, Overtime or travel required
No Parking Provided
The Application Security Consultant role is an on-premises position. The consultant will provide specialized security expertise to support product teams, product owners, infrastructure, and cybersecurity leadership. This role strengthens application security across the SDLC and DevOps through assessments, secure architecture reviews, tooling optimization, and operational governance. The consultant will also play a key role in onboarding, configuring, tuning, and monitoring protections across Akamai and Cloudflare WAF platforms, ensuring consistent security coverage across high value, cloud hosted, and externally facing applications.
Additionally, the consultant is expected to perform technical assessments, enabling development teams through tooling and coaching, and helping establish repeatable processes, metrics, and governance.
Technical Skills
1. 5+ years Hands on experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies, rulesets, firewall rules, bot management, DNS, DDoS, logpush).
2. 4+ Hands on experience with Akamai WAF (KSD/Property Manager, Bot Manager, Edge DNS, log staging/testing).
3. Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, application security principles, secure development practices.
4. 5+ Experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tools such as Checkmarx, BurpSuite, Fortify, or equivalents.
5. Experience analyzing HTTP traffic, headers, payloads, and attack vectors (XSS, SQLi, RCE, deserialization, CSRF, SSRF, etc.).
6. Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, SaaS) and modern application architectures.
7. Experience integrating or consuming security telemetry from WAFs, scanners, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud logs to build dashboards and metrics.
Salary commensurate with scope of work job experience
Perform other reasonably related duties as required.
New Wave People is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Manhattan, NY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $51.50–$52.82 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.nwpusa.com/ |
About Company
New Wave People, Inc. (NWP) is an established Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), Minority, and Economically Disadvantaged (EDWOSB) business. We are recognized by diverse organizations for our many contributions to the business world and the communities we serve. We have been honored among the Top 100 Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States by DiversityBusiness.com. New Wave People provides professional contingent staffing for both short-term, or long- term assignments. Our clients may request one contractor from us, or an entire project team with management oversite. We offer a wide variety of personnel to government and corporate clients nationwide. NWP’s management team with over 130 years of staffing industry experience is very proud to deliver quantifiable results to our clients and our employees exemplifying our commitment to business excellence and community.
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