Skill: WAF Technical Skill Set: Akamai, Cloudflare Experience:5 years Date of interview: 5th September 2026 Mode of interview: Face-to-Face interview Interview location: Chennai Job Description: 1. Monitor and analyze Cloudflare WAF alerts, logs, and dashboards for advanced threat detection 2. Perform initial triage to classify alerts into true positives and false positives 3. Perform deep-dive analysis of web application attacks (SQL Injection, XSS, RCE, bot attacks, API abuse) 4. Analyze WAF logs (IP, headers, URLs, payloads) to identify potential threats 5. Validate rule triggers and policy violations against known attack patterns 6. Firewall HA configuration and troubleshooting. 7. Escalate confirmed or high-risk incidents to L2/L3 teams with supporting evidence 8.



Support WAF rule tuning by identifying false positives/negatives. Execute predefined playbooks for common web attacks (SQLi, XSS, bot activity) 9. Ensure WAF platform health, uptime, and alerting mechanisms are functioning 10. Support onboarding of current applications into WAF and ensure proper protection policies are applied 11. Maintain incident documentation, ticket updates, and reporting records 12. Coordinate with AppSec, SOC, and network teams for incident resolution and tuning 13. Exposure to DDoS protection mechanisms and rate-limiting strategies

📌 WAF (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Tamil Nadu