As an Application Security and Performance Consultant at Cloudflare, you will provide technical execution of solutions for enterprise customers, focusing on products such as DDoS Protection and WAF. Your role involves gathering requirements, implementing changes, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to knowledge sharing within the team. You will work directly with customers to ensure they leverage Cloudflare's services effectively.
Available Locations: London, Lisbon, Amsterdam or Munich
About the role:
Cloudflare provides advisory and hands-on-keyboard implementation and migration services for enterprise customers. As a Consultant for Application Security and Performance, you are an individual contributor working in the post-sales landscape, responsible for the technical execution of solutions and guidance to our customers to get the most value possible from their Cloudflare investment. You are an expert in Layer 7 products like: DDoS Protection, WAF, API Gateway, Bot Management, Certificates Manager, Rate Limiting, SSL and Page Shield.
This position has working hours Monday to Friday 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. Occasionally, we support our customers during the weekends for specific changes that need to be done outside of their business hours. Travel is expected around 30%.
What you will do:
- Plan and deliver timely and organized services for customers, ensure customers see the full value in Cloudflare's products and advice on product best practices.
- Gather business and technical requirements, use cases and any other information required to build, migrate and deliver a solution on behalf of the customer and transition the Cloudflare working environment to the customer. Produce a Solution Design, HLD, LLD, databuilds, procedures, scripts, test plans, drawings, deployment plan, migration plan, as-builts, and any other artifacts necessary to deliver the solution and transition smoothly into the customer's technical teams.
- Implement changes on behalf of the customer in the Cloudflare environment following the customer's change management process. Provide guidance to the customer to configure their CPEs and integration points.
- Troubleshoot implementation issues and collaborate with Customer Support, Engineering and other teams to assist technical escalations.
- Contribute towards the success of the organization through knowledge sharing activities such as contributing to internal and external documentation, answering technical Q&A, and helping to iterate on best practices. Support building operational assets like templates, automation scripts, procedures, workflows, etc.
Experience might include a combination of the skills below:
- 5+ years of experience in a customer facing position as a Customer Engineer, Security Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Onboarding Engineer, Consultant, Technical Support Engineer, Solutions Architect, and/or Systems Engineer.
- Layers and protocols of the OSI model, such as TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP
- Deep understanding of Internet and Security technologies such as DDoS, Web Application Firewall, Certificates, DNS, CDN, Analytics and Logs.
- Demonstrated experience with a scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash) and a desire to expand those skills.
- Demonstrated experience with security aspects of an internet property, such as DNS, WAFs, Bot Management, Rate Limiting, (M)TLS and certificates.
- Performance aspects of an internet property, such as Speed, Latency, Caching, HTTP/3, TLSv1.3.
- Working experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. Strong experience with APIs.
- Ability to manage a project, work to deadlines, prioritize between competing demands and manage uncertainty.
- The work will be performed in English. Fluency in a second regional European language is a must.
Top Skills
Api Gateway
APIs
Application Security
Bash
Bot Management
Certificates Manager
Ddos Protection
Dns
HTTP
JavaScript
Page Shield
Performance Management
Python
Rate Limiting
Ssl
Tcp/Ip
Terraform
Tls
Web Application Firewall
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