WAF Network security

WAF (Web Application Firewall) Administrator

Primary Skills – Expert level experience in Web Application Firewall (F5 or Cloudflare)

Secondary Skills-Firewall administration & Management (Palo alto, FortiGate, Checkpoint)

Experience required : 4 - 12 years.

Tools : Akamai, Barracuda, Cloudflare, F5 ( Any one is mandatory)

Certification : WAF certified associate

Activities to be performed.

Provide Day to day operational support for WAF Mgmt

Responsible for the design, planning, implementation, and operation of setups and management.

Onboarding / Offboarding web applications

Troubleshooting of operation issues reported by application teams.

Firmware upgradation (stable versions)

Closing of audit points / vulnerabilities by coordinating with internal and external teams

Configuring virtual servers, nodes, pools and certificates

Creation of security policies for web applications

Fine-tuning of existing security policies in order to strengthen application security.

Whitelisting attributes like URL parameters, file types based on the applications requirement.

Event logs monitoring

Configuration backups

Hardening Policies

OWASP top 10 compliance

ACL configuration for Websites, Applications

Event & Log monitoring

Maintain Config backup.

Knowledge on DNS technology for A record and CName

Generating Daily & Weekly & Monthly reports on Application hosted on WAF.

ITIL & ITSM Knowledge

IPS / IDS signature creation / modification as per requirement of Application