Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Communicate with customers via chat, email, and phone
• Compare traffic signatures and attributes including IP addresses, cookie variations, HTTP headers, and JavaScript footprints to determine what is good traffic and what is malicious
• DDoS mitigation for OSI layers 3, 4, & 7: advise customers on how to filter malicious traffic using Cloudflare tools like Magic Transit, Network Firewall, WAF, IP reputation lists, packet inspection, blocklisting, allowlisting, and rate limiting
• Work with Engineering and Operations teams to mitigate attacks, suggest steps to mitigate, and apply the appropriate mitigation when applicable
• Work with Engineering and Product teams to improve products and tools

Requirements

• Fluent English speaker
• Minimum 3 years working within a Technical Support team solving various technical issues
• Self-driven and capable of learning new technologies / systems / features with little guidance
• Fundamental understanding how the Internet works (OSI Model)
• Advanced understanding of internet protocols like TCP and UDP
• Computer Networking fundamentals, experience with iptables and looking glass
• Experience troubleshooting network connectivity issues, BGP routing, and GRE tunnels
• Packet capture analysis
• Experience in command line and tools, including curl, dig, traceroute, openssl, git
• Experience troubleshooting DNS, SSL / TLS, HTTP
• Experience in a web development and / or hosting environment such as installing and configuring web servers like Apache, Nginx, Caddy and IIS
• Experience writing scripts in Bash, Python, JavaScript or other scripting language
• Experience in working as part of a team in a customer-facing role

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiar with Cloudflare and actively using our platform
• Worked with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, and other database servers
• Fluent and can troubleshoot in other languages beyond English and Spanish