Associate Director - F5 Engineer

Orcapod Consulting Services; India; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Orcapod Consulting Services in India seeks an experienced Associate Director - F5 Engineer to lead WAF engineering across cloud and on-prem environments. You will design, implement, and tune WAF solutions using F5, Akamai, AWS WAF, Azure WAF, GCP WAF, and ModSecurity while coordinating with SOC/CSIRT teams.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on security operations, incident response, threat analysis, and security log analysis skills, with DevSecOps experience to integrate controls into CI/CD

Qualifications

• Experience in Cyber Security, SOC, or CSIRT background with WAF engineering expertise.
• Strong experience analyzing web security threats and managing multi-vendor WAF platforms.
• Proven ability to design and operate WAF across cloud and on-prem environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and optimize WAF solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Tune security policies to enhance protection while minimizing false positives.
• Analyze web application security logs and investigate incidents with SOC/CSIRT teams.
• Develop custom WAF rules and security controls to address emerging threats.
• Implement rate limiting, bot mitigation, and application-layer security controls.
• Support HTTPS inspection, SSL/TLS termination, and certificate management.
• Work closely with DevSecOps teams to integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage WAF logging, monitoring, reporting, and incident response activities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and provide technical guidance on web security best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.

Skills

F5 Advanced WAF

AWS WAF

Azure WAF

GCP WAF

Akamai

ModSecurity

OWASP Top 10

Security Operations (SOC)

CSIRT

Incident Response

Threat Analysis

Security Log Analysis

HTTPS/SSL/TLS

DevSecOps

CI/CD security

IAM/IDAM

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Akamai

F5 Advanced WAF/ASM

ModSecurity

AWS WAF

Azure WAF

GCP WAF

Job description

Associate Director - F5 Engineer

Location: Pan India

Employment Type: C2H

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director - F5 Engineer with strong expertise in Web Application Firewall (WAF) Engineering, Web Application Security, Security Log Analysis, and Cloud Security. The ideal candidate should come from a Cyber Security, SOC, or CSIRT background with extensive experience analyzing web security threats and managing enterprise-scale WAF platforms across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role provides an opportunity to become a subject matter expert in multi-vendor WAF technologies, including F5, Akamai, AWS WAF, Azure WAF, GCP WAF, and ModSecurity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and optimize WAF solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Manage and tune security policies to enhance protection while minimizing false positives.
• Analyze web application security logs and investigate security incidents in collaboration with SOC/CSIRT teams.
• Develop custom WAF rules and security controls to address emerging threats.
• Implement rate limiting, bot mitigation, and application-layer security controls.
• Support HTTPS inspection, SSL/TLS termination, and certificate management.
• Work closely with DevSecOps teams to integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage WAF logging, monitoring, reporting, and incident response activities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and provide technical guidance on web security best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with F5 Advanced WAF/ASM and other WAF platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS WAF, Azure WAF, GCP WAF, Akamai, or ModSecurity.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, web application attacks, and mitigation techniques.
• Experience in Security Operations (SOC), CSIRT, Incident Response, and Threat Analysis.
• Expertise in Security Log Analysis using SIEM platforms.
• Strong knowledge of HTTPS, SSL/TLS, Certificate Management, and Network Security.
• Experience with DevSecOps, Security Automation, and CI/CD environments.
• Understanding of IAM/IDAM concepts and access control management.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience delivering enterprise cybersecurity or infrastructure transformation projects.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies.
• Experience supporting large-scale globally distributed environments.
• Industry certifications in F5, Cloud Security, or Cyber Security are advantageous.