Hybrid Lead Information Security Engineer – iWeb Application Security

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About the role

  • Lead Information Security Engineer managing inbound web application security to protect enterprise web assets at Wells Fargo. Design and implement security measures against application-layer attacks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead incident response for moderately complex events affecting public web applications, with emphasis on Layer‑7 attack detection, triage, containment, and recovery.
  • Provide security consulting to internal application stakeholders, ensuring conformance with enterprise security policies and standards.
  • Design, document, test, and maintain security controls for web applications at the edge.
  • Engineer, deploy, and tune WAF policies/signatures (e.g., cross‑site scripting, injection, protocol anomalies), bot detection/mitigation, API protection (rate limiting, schema/behavior enforcement), and Layer‑7 DDoS defenses.
  • Implement and refine rate limiting for web and API endpoints to ensure resiliency, performance, and abuse prevention.
  • Review and correlate security logs and telemetry across edge providers and on‑prem platforms; distinguish real attacks from false positives.
  • Apply industry best practices in availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity.
  • Collaborate across security engineering, networking, application owners, and operations to resolve issues and achieve shared goals.
  • Support application onboarding/offboarding to the SaaS providers, using knowledge of DNS, WAF, L7 DDoS, bot policies, and GLB/routing considerations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent
  • 2+ years in-depth knowledge and troubleshooting of HTTP-based web applications
  • 5+ years implementing WAF signatures or virtual patches
  • 5+ years hands-on with enterprise scale Web Application Firewalls
  • 2+ years intermediate to advanced scripting/automation (e.g., Bash, Ansible playbook/role development, PowerShell, Python)
  • 2+ years advanced understanding of network concepts (DNS, firewalls, load balancing)
  • 1+ year change and incident management in medium/large enterprise environments
  • 1+ year with Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)
  • 1+ year basic understanding of TLS, certificates, and mTLS authentication

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Relocation assistance: Not available
  • Visa sponsorship: Not available for this role

Job title

Lead Information Security Engineer – iWeb Application Security

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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