Position : Network Security Engineer (WAF / Akamai)

Total Experience : 3 - 7 years

Location : Navi Mumbai

Working Days : 6 Days from Office

Notice Period Requirement : 30 Days (Maximum)

Client's Company Size : Startup / Small Enterprise

- Must be comfortable with a 24/7 NOC rotational shift environment

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Provide L2 support for Akamai WAF (Kona Site Defender), including policy tuning, configuration, and troubleshooting.

- Monitor and analyze WAF events, logs, and alerts to detect and mitigate web attacks.

- Handle incident management and escalation to L3 or vendor support when required.

- Onboard new applications and services into the Akamai WAF platform, including ruleset design and deployment.

- Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to validate and optimize protection policies.

- Perform root cause analysis of recurring WAF-related incidents and propose long-term fixes.

- Support change management activities such as policy updates, upgrades, and patching.

- Maintain and update documentation, SOPs, and runbooks for WAF operations.

- Work with compliance and audit teams to ensure WAF security standards are met.

Candidate Requirements :

- Must have 3+ years in Network Security / Web Application Security, with hands-on Akamai WAF (Kona Site Defender) experience - policy tuning, configuration, and troubleshooting.

- Must have experience monitoring and analyzing WAF events, logs, and alerts to detect and mitigate web attacks, with strong incident troubleshooting and RCA of recurring WAF incidents.

- Must have strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, web threats, and mitigation techniques (staying current with CVEs), plus proficiency in HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, and TCP/IP.

- Must have experience in policy configuration, false-positive tuning, and custom rule creation, with familiarity with Akamai Control Center (Luna Portal), API integrations, and a good understanding of CDN, reverse proxy, caching, and load balancing.

- Must have experience onboarding new applications/services into the Akamai WAF platform (ruleset design and deployment), collaborating with application, DevOps, and security teams to validate and optimize protection policies.

- Must have experience handling incident management and escalation to L3 / vendor support, supporting change management (policy updates, upgrades, patching), and maintaining SOPs, runbooks, and documentation.

- Must have ITIL process knowledge (Incident / Change / Problem Management) and experience working with compliance / audit teams to meet WAF security standards.

- Must be comfortable with a 24/7 NOC rotational shift environment at the client site.