WAF - L2/L3

Key Responsibilities  Provide L3 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 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 (policy updates, upgrades, patching).  Maintain and update documentation, SOPs, and runbooks for WAF operations.  Stay updated with OWASP Top 10, CVEs, and latest web security threats.  Work with compliance/audit teams to ensure WAF security standards are met.Required Skills & Qualifications  5–10 years of experience in Network Security / Application Security.  Hands-on experience with Akamai WAF (Kona Site Defender).  Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, web threats, and mitigation techniques.  Proficiency in HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP protocols.  Experience in policy configuration, false positive tuning, and custom rule creation.  Familiarity with Akamai Control Center (Luna Portal) and API integrations.  Good understanding of CDN, reverse proxy, caching, and load balancing concepts.  Strong incident troubleshooting and analytical skills.  ITIL process knowledge (Incident/Change/Problem Management).

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