Job Description WAF SME (Web Application Firewall)

Location: Noida
Experience: 7+ Years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Role Overview

We are seeking a WAF SME to manage both on-prem and cloud-based WAF deployments, ensuring high availability, optimal performance, and compliance with enterprise security standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage Citrix NetScaler: Oversee 4 SDX appliances and 11 VPX instances (3 cloud + 8 on-prem), supporting ~1500 internet-facing applications

- Manage Imperva WAF: Handle gateway appliances and virtual deployments, ensuring high availability, low latency, and SSL acceleration

- Configure and maintain WAF policies, signatures, and profiles

- Apply Web App Firewall protection to VPN, authentication, and portal endpoints in NetScaler environments

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and vendor best practices

- Handle 3 4 change requests and 10 12 troubleshooting tasks weekly for WAF platforms

- Support L3-level incident response and RCA for WAF-related alerts and anomalies

- Collaborate with SOC and SIEM teams to correlate WAF logs with broader threat detection workflows





- Monitor WAF performance metrics such as latency, throughput, and SSL/TLS transaction rates

- Tune policies to reduce false positives and minimize impact on application performance

- Implement fault-tolerant configurations with hot-swappable components and high-availability clustering

- Participate in governance forums and SLA reviews to report on WAF posture and incident metrics

- Ensure WAF configurations align with compliance frameworks and audit requirements

- Contribute to CXO dashboards and Power BI reporting for perimeter security

- Act as a domain-specific SME within the broader CDC team, collaborating with DLP, EDR, and Cloud Security SMEs

- Support cross-skilling initiatives to reduce dependency and improve operational resilience

Tools Technologies

- Netscaler
- Imperva

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📌 WAF SME (Web Application Firewall) (Noida)
🏢 Gigaops Global Solutions
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