Web Application Firewall (WAF) :

- Strong experience in Web Application and API protection (WAAP),WAF management,tuning and log analysis with strong understanding of security principles

- Experience with implementation,administration of WAF -Akamai

- Experience in troubleshooting HTTP protocol based issues

Technical Skills & Responsibilities :

- Good working knowledge of HTTP Protocol or previous experience in web application/ API development

- Identifying and mitigating false positive to optimize WAF performance

- Experience in documentation of WAF tuning procedures,policies and cofigurations

- Proficiency in log analysis tools and techniques to identify patterns and anomalities in web-traffic

- Experience with tools such as Splunk, Wireshark, or custom scripts to process and analyze logs

- Experience with major WAF solutions like Akamai(mandate), F5(optional),AWS,GCP

- Soft Skill & Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of WAF solutions

- Aware about the latest web security threats and methods to ensure optimal protection

- Effective communication skills to collaborate with application teams through onboarding, tuning,maintanance and incident responses

- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skill

Education and Experience :

- Formal education or equivalent experience in Information Security, Cybersecurity

Good to have skills :

Technical Skill :

- Experience in SOC (Security Operations Center) or CSIRT(Computer Security Incident Response Team),AppSec or Ethical hacking

- Familarity with automation technologies such as Terraform,Python,Jira etc

- Experience in regular assesments and audits of WAF configurations

- Experience in WAF F5

Mandatory skills :

- Akamai WAF, Web Application and API protection (WAAP)

Desired/ Secondary skills

- Familarity with automation technologies such as Terraform,Python,Jira etc

- Experience in regular assesments and audits of WAF configurations

- Experience in WAF F5