Cloudflare Security Engineer: WAF, DDoS & SOC Playbooks

Systems Limited; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Engineer in Lahore to secure and optimize the Cloudflare security platform. You will focus on WAF, DDoS protection, rate limiting, and firewall rules while collaborating with DevOps and application teams to strengthen security posture.

You will monitor security events, analyze patterns, and update SOC runbooks to respond to incidents effectively. Strong hands-on Cloudflare experience and threat-detection skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with Cloudflare security products and platform administration.
• Strong expertise in WAF, DDoS Protection, Rate Limiting and Firewall Rules.
• Experience reviewing and tuning WAF rules to reduce false positives and improve threat detection.
• Solid understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, CDN, and web app architectures.
• Experience developing and updating SOC runbooks and incident response playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Review, optimize, and maintain WAF rulesets to minimize false positives.
• Configure and fine-tune DDoS protection policies and mitigation strategies.
• Design and optimize Rate Limiting rules to curb abuse.
• Monitor Cloudflare security events and analyze traffic for improvements.
• Investigate incidents and implement remediation with internal teams.
• Develop SOC runbooks and playbooks for Cloudflare events and IR.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Security operations

SOC runbooks

Collaboration

Tools

Cloudflare WAF

Cloudflare DDoS Protection

Rate Limiting

Firewall Rules

SIEM integration

Terraform (Cloudflare)

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Security Engineer in Lahore to secure and optimize the Cloudflare security platform. You will focus on WAF, DDoS protection, rate limiting, and firewall rules while collaborating with DevOps and application teams to strengthen security posture.

You will monitor security events, analyze patterns, and update SOC runbooks to respond to incidents effectively. Strong hands-on Cloudflare experience and threat-detection skills are essential.