CBRE - Principal WAF Engineer (5-10 yrs)

Principal WAF Engineer

Location : Hyderabad /Gurgaon ,Hybrid

COMPANY PROFILE :

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE : CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2013 revenue). The Company has approximately 44,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through approximately 350 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our website atwww.cbre.com.

Based in Santa Barbara, CA, this office provides consulting services, cloud and server-based software tools, and statistical indices that solve real estate business problems through robust data analytics. While the work is fast paced and challenging, the environment is casual and flexible

JOB SUMMARY :

The mission of the individual in this role is to leverage their strong understanding of enterprise-level knowledge and/or expert knowledge to mitigate cyber security risk.

They will actively work with the CBRE business, Digital & Technology, and other partner organizations (Compliance, Risk Mgmt., Audit, & Legal) to seamlessly integrate security processes, tools, and people into the business culture providing a holistic security ecosystem, driving continuous improvements and seamless protection / monitoring capabilities globally. Leads and executes on complex initiatives that drive problem resolution.

As a senior member on the team, this individual will work to build a progressive development team with a mindset toward being agile and solving problems iteratively.

Experience in all skills listed is not necessary to be qualified for the position. If you have relevant similar experience, we still want to talk to you.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Serve as a customer facing point of contact for the global WAF team

- Coordinate implementation of WAF infrastructure with CBRE application teams

- Deploy CBRE WAF standardized rulesets

- Work with CBRE application teams to troubleshoot WAF rulesets and applications' interactions with them

- Deploy, configure, and maintain cloud native web application firewalls

- Create project and implementation plans for team and customer efforts

- Create WAF product documentation for internal usage

- Provision WAF monitoring and reporting components on a per application basis

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- May lead members of a globally present DevOps team.

- Shape the direction of the team moving forward. May provide formal supervision to individual employees within single functional or operational area.

- May recommend staff recruitment, selection, corrective action and termination.

- May prepare and deliver performance appraisal for staff.

- May mentors and coach team members to further develop competencies. Leads by example and models behaviors that are consistent with the company's values.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE :

- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in a related field of work plus a minimum of 3 years related work experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience (equivalent work experience = 2 years' of related experience for every year of higher level education).

- Industry related certifications preferred such as CCSP, CCSS or cloud specific certifications

- Demonstrated experience with cloud based WAF in Imperva, Akamai, AWS and/or Azure.

- Demonstrated experience writing and reviewing business, user, and non-functional/system level requirements

- Comfortable dealing with stakeholders, developers, and architects during facilitated sessions and during the development lifecycle

- Strong knowledge of system architecture and network applications

- 5 to 7 years' experience of advanced knowledge in security, application security, or network security.

- Ability to positively engaged with the business at all levels

- Ability to troubleshoot complex problems, manage and resolve in a timely manner.

- Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively.

- Strong communication and conceptual skills with desire to share knowledge and cross-train.

- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines.

OTHER SKILLS and/or ABILITIES :

- Familiarity with version control software

- Familiarity with pull request style software development

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform

- Experience with documentation and project management systems such as Confluence and Jira

- Experience writing software in languages such as Python, Ruby, or Golang

COMMUNICATION SKILLS :

- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret the most complex business documents.

- This role involves daily interaction with application and peer teams across global regions, cultures, and time zones.

- Experience communicating to a global audience and a variety of specific cultural audiences is strongly preferred.

- Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive issues.

- Ability to write reports, manuals, speeches, and articles using distinctive style.

- Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics to employees, clients, top management and/or public groups.

- Ability to motivate and negotiate effectively with key employees, top management, and client groups to take desired action.

REASONING ABILITY :

- Ability to solve advanced problems and deal with a variety of options in complex situations.

- Requires expert level analytical and quantitative skills with proven experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment.

- Draws upon the analysis of others and makes recommendations that have a direct impact on the company.