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

- Monitor and analyze Cloudflare WAF alerts, logs, and dashboards for advanced threat detection
- Perform initial triage to classify alerts into true positives and false positives
- Perform deep-dive analysis of web application attacks (SQL Injection, XSS, RCE, bot attacks, API abuse)
- Analyze WAF logs (IP, headers, URLs, payloads) to identify potential threats
- Validate rule triggers and policy violations against known attack patterns
- Firewall HA configuration and troubleshooting.
- Escalate confirmed or high-risk incidents to L2/L3 teams with supporting evidence




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

📌 Waf (Chennai)
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