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