Job Purpose
The AXA Cyber Defense department provides AXA Group with a cybersecurity solution: the teams deliver operational security services to protect, detect and respond to cyber threats that could impact the AXA Group. The team also ensures that Security principles are used, and that Products development and projects are aligned with Security strategy frameworks, as delivered by Group Security.
Part of it, into the “Network & Messaging product” team, a web gateway solution to secure and filter all the accesses to and from Internet: this solution is entitled Secure Web Access, which is currently based on Skyhigh vendor.
Responsibilities
As Senior Web Gateway Expert (Web Proxy) you must have technical experience on user and application’s internet access delivery, strong collaboration, and customer relation skills to carry out all responsibilities below:
- Technically advise and support SWA Product management on the ownership and definition of the Product Strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle to ensure to serve the security objectives.
- Technically advise, lead, and support technical discussion with Group security related to any topics related to the product.
- Technically advise, lead, and support any technical activity and improvement that may be set up on the proxy product and related to:
(a) Policy configurations
(b) Security reports requirement (who, what, when, how)
(c) Performance improvement
(d) Automation
(e) New features
(f) Service management (service catalog, internal processes, operating model, etc.)
- To challenge and lead technical discussion with the vendor for topics as service request, incident, improvement plan or new feature.
- To support and advise the BAU service provider on some level 3 activities and work closely with their L2 support teams to technically lead and advise them on their daily activities.
- To support, lead and manage incidents resolution related to web gateway daily operations.
- Support and technically advise on new customers’ demands and assess the technical sets-up on proxy configurations to answer the need.
- To technically advise, lead and support the standards definitions.
- Prepare technical documentations and procedures to support the overall projects and BAU teams.
- Analyze user or application internet activities for security purpose.
- Analyze user or application internet activities for performance improvement.
- To head up on the integration of the web gateway product with the overall AXA environment.
More than a very strong technical competence, we need strong leadership and team spirit as you will be in relation with many teams:
- Present product strategy to C-level.
- Work closely with CyberDefense teams on security request and issue.
- Work closely with project teams on AXA program, cloud migrations, etc.
- Work closely with vendor and provider to challenge, support and align their service to the need.
- Work closely with others AXA product for any interaction that proxy may have with their own product (SEP, Windows edition, etc.).
- Work closely with workplace support teams to support device browsing issue.
- Work closely with AD support teams to support authentication issue.
Your ProfileProfile and Qualifications
- More than 8 years of experience in technical IT positions.
- Strong technical knowledge and experience in -
(a) Web gateway security role and key design.
(b) McAfee/Skyhigh web gateway solution on premise & cloud.
(c) Web Security standards.
(d) IT Migration programs.
(e) Firewalling and Load balancing technology.
(f) Good knowledge of server administration.
- Good technical knowledge and experience in -
(a) Active Directory and Authentication mechanisms.
(b) Workplace task experience: Windows/Mac.
(c) Networks: LAN/WAN, SDWAN, Remote access VPN, Split tunneling.
(d) End Point Protection mechanisms (Antimalware, EDR, DLP).
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