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IT Application Security Consultant
Job Location:
Job Location:
Manhattan, IL - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 51 - 52
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
11 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
*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 highvalue cloudhosted 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 Handson experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies rulesets firewall rules bot management DNS DDoS logpush).
2. 4 Handson 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 highvalue cloudhosted 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 Handson experience with Cloudflare WAF (policies rulesets firewall rules bot management DNS DDoS logpush).
2. 4 Handson 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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