Cyber Security Engineer - Network

Location: Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Company

hirify.global is an Australian payments company developing secure payment solutions and digital transaction infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and support WAF and DDoS protection services across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Develop and tune WAF policies, rule sets, bot management, API protection, rate limiting, and advanced traffic controls.
• Engineer solutions to detect, prevent, and respond to network, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks.
• Monitor traffic, analyse threats, and investigate complex security incidents.
• Integrate monitoring, telemetry, and SIEM capabilities to improve security visibility.
• Collaborate with Network, Cloud, Application, and Security Operations teams to onboard services and strengthen security controls.

Requirements

• Experience in network security engineering, WAF, DDoS protection, cloud security, or application delivery.
• Strong experience implementing and operating enterprise WAF platforms.
• Practical experience mitigating network, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, DNS, load balancing, routing, reverse proxies, and CDN technologies.
• Experience protecting web applications and APIs against OWASP threats, bots, and malicious traffic.
• Strong troubleshooting, traffic analysis, incident response, stakeholder management, and technical communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• 24-month maximum-term contract.
• Flexible work arrangements within an established payments organisation.
• Development opportunities and recognition through the IGNITE program.
• Wellbeing initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial health.
• Inclusive, diverse, and barrier-free workplace.