About the role

What will you do at EPMA?

EPMA is seeking an experienced CloudFlare WAF Support Engineer to join a client supporting a critical production environment. This role is supporting an existing CloudFlare deployment during a transition to F5. This is a support-focused role—no design, implementation, or migration responsibilities.

Title: CloudFlare WAF Support Engineer

Type: 6-month contract

Location: Houston Downtown- Need to be onsite - 5 days a week

Industry: Oil & Ga

W2 Employment only

Key Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day administration and support for an existing CloudFlare WAF environment
Monitor and maintain approximately 70 CloudFlare proxies
Troubleshoot production issues related to web traffic, DNS, SSL/TLS, and WAF policies
Support incident resolution and ensure platform stability and availability
Work closely with network, security, and application teams to resolve operational issue
Maintain documentation and follow operational support processes
Required Qualifications
Hands-on experience administering and supporting CloudFlare WAF in a production environment
Strong troubleshooting experience with CloudFlare services and web application traffic
Good understanding of networking concepts, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and reverse proxies
Exposure to web application security and WAF policy management
Ability to support an existing environment with minimal onboarding
Preferred Qualification
Experience working with application delivery or web applications
Familiarity with F5 technologies is a plus but not required
Previous experience in enterprise production support environment

Which skills does this role require?

CloudFlare WAFDNSSSL/TLSHTTP/HTTPSReverse ProxiesWeb Application SecurityTroubleshootingWAF Policy ManagementCloudFlareWAFHTTPHTTPSReverse ProxyOil & GasNetwork SecurityIncident ResolutionWeb Traffic

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