Technical Consultant - L1

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of WAF solutions into existing security infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Application teams to enable web application protection.
• Deliver anti-bypass protection for on-premise application currently using Akamai.
• Provide recommendations for WAF configuration based on best practices and security requirements.
• Perform regular assessments and audits of WAF configurations to ensure optimal security posture and compliance with industry standards.
• Maintain evidence for audit and regulatory asks
• Deliver monthly / quarterly business reviews for application owners to show the effectiveness of the WAF control.
• Stay updated with the latest web security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to continually enhance WAF effectiveness.
• Evaluate, design, and deliver new and alternative WAAP features and/or solutions

WAF Engineer
This role will play a critical role in enhancing our Web Application Firewall (WAF) across multiple solutions and applications and will be pivotal in crafting, testing, and implementing advanced WAF solutions.
This role requires in depth knowledge across multiple platforms to be able to assess capabilities and ensure consistent coverage across platforms. It will involve a strong focus on WAF tuning via detailed log analysis, false positive detection and mitigation, and making tuning and configuration recommendations. The ideal candidate will have experience in SOC for in-depth log analysis and have previously worked with the Akamai platform, although working with at least two major WAF vendors such as F5, AWS, GCP, is also key.
The successful candidate will monitor and review tuning requests, proactively assist with identifying false positives and provide expert recommendations to ensure optimal protection and performance. This will require staying up to date with the latest web security threats and platform enhancements.

Deliver:
No. Performance Parameter Measure 1.
Job Knowledge

Consider existing skill levels & measure cross skills & upskills acquired to remain current on new development in respective SAP Technical module
2.
Customer Satisfaction

As defined by clients SLAs
3.
Manging change & Improvement

Measure effectiveness in initiating changes, adapting to changes from old methods when they are no longer effective

Measure overall adaptability/flexibility to move from one project to another project
4.
Functional Leadership

Measure effectiveness in accomplishing work assignments through subordinates; delegating & coordinating effectively
5.
Customer Responsiveness

Measure Responsiveness & courtesy in dealing with external customer, internal staff, teammates in courteous manner

Mandatory Skills: Akamai WAF .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

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Client-provided location(s): Pune, India

Job ID: Wipro-100732

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-04T18:45:34