Job Description
Job Title:  Technical Consultant - L1
City:  Pune
State/Province:  Maharashtra
Posting Start Date:  12/4/25
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

Job Description

Akamai WAF Engineer:


· Consult with Capability Lead to deliver Web Application and API Protection for our critical applications, primarily on the Akamai platform.
· Monitor and review all tuning requests.
· Conduct detailed log analysis to identify false positives and optimize WAF rules for improved accuracy and performance.
· Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for WAF tuning, tuning procedures, policies, and configurations.
· Develop, test, and recommend WAF policies and rules tailored to specific applications and environments.
· Proactively assist with identifying false positives
· 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

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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.

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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

 

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Mandatory Skills: Akamai WAF .

 

Experience: 5-8 Years .

 

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