Career Opportunity

Application Security Resident Engineer

Vacancy Code: 002

We are hiring a Resident Application Security Engineer with mandatory banking operations experience to lead our WAF strategy. You will assess environments, execute migrations to FortiWEB, and fine-tune policies using FortiADC and FortiSandbox. Requires 2-3+ years of experience in FortiWeb/FortiADC, strong knowledge of web application security, SSL/TLS, and OWASP Top 10. Fortinet certifications are a plus.

Opening Date: 8/30/2026 | Closing Date: 9/20/2026
Category: Technical
Location : Riyadh, KSA

Job Purpose:

  • Involve in the migration of applications and APIs to FortiWEB.

  • Involve in the implementation of FortiWEB solution and applications migration.

  • Support application security enhancement, WAF optimization, and application onboarding.

  • Provide FortiADC expertise for application delivery and load-balancing requirements when required.

  • Involve in FortiSandbox implementation and integration for payload and file inspection.

  • Coordinate with application owners, network teams, cybersecurity teams, and infrastructure teams.

  • Operate day-to-day tasks for the WAF solution.

Job Description:

  • Assess the existing WAF architecture, policies, application coverage, traffic, capacity, and integrations.

  • Identify security, performance, scalability, resiliency, and availability gaps.

  • Participate in design workshops and prepare HLD, LLD, migration plans, runbooks, and functional test plans.

  • Deploy and configure the FortiWeb platform.

  • Migrate applications and APIs to FortiWeb.

  • Convert existing WAF policies to FortiWeb best-practice equivalent policies.

  • Install and bind SSL certificates.

  • Configure security profiles for existing and newly onboarded applications.

  • Implement payload validation, multi-file inspection, threat detection, and advanced attack protection.

  • Integrate FortiWeb with FortiSandbox for payload and file inspection.

  • Prepare application cutover and rollback procedures.

  • Execute application migrations during approved maintenance windows.

  • Coordinate application testing and validation with application owners.

  • Tune WAF policies to improve protection, performance, and reduce false positives.

  • Validate throughput, bandwidth handling, concurrent connections, and application availability.

  • Troubleshoot WAF, SSL, application publishing, security-policy, and performance issues.

  • Provide post-migration support and operational monitoring.

  • Maintain application migration records, implementation documents, test results, and validation reports.

  • Deliver knowledge-transfer sessions to the customer’s technical teams.

  • Operate day-to-day tasks for the WAF solution.

Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

  • 2 or 3+ years of experience.

  • Strong hands-on experience with FortiWeb deployment, migration, administration, and troubleshooting.

  • Strong hands-on experience with FortiADC deployment and application load balancing.

  • FortiSandbox experience is a huge advantage.

  • Experience migrating applications and security policies from another WAF platform.

  • Strong knowledge of web application security, APIs, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, and OWASP Top 10.

  • Experience with WAF policy tuning, application onboarding, payload validation, and file inspection.

  • Strong knowledge of networking and cybersecurity principles.

  • Experience preparing HLD, LLD, migration plans, test plans, and implementation documents.

  • Relevant Fortinet certifications are preferred.

  • Good communication, documentation, and troubleshooting skills.

  • Experience in monitoring and operating day-to-day tasks in WAF and Load Balancing solutions

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