Senior WAF Migration Architect

Shape the architecture behind secure, resilient, enterprise-scale WAF migrations.

The Role

As a Senior WAF Migration Architect, you will lead the end-to-end architecture and migration of Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities to Cloudflare and Akamai. You will own the current-state assessment, target-state architecture, migration strategy, security policies, traffic routing, DNS and CDN integration, and application onboarding approach.

Working closely with security, network, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams, you will help deliver a secure and low-risk migration while ensuring the target platforms meet enterprise security, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.

What You’ll Do

• Lead current-state assessments and define the target-state WAF architecture across Cloudflare and Akamai, including security policies, traffic routing, DNS, CDN integration, and application onboarding.
• Define the end-to-end WAF migration strategy, including migration waves, technical dependencies, testing approaches, rollback strategies, and cutover requirements.
• Establish WAF security architecture, policies, rules, and controls aligned with enterprise security, performance, availability, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with security, network, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams to