PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, result oriented Engineer with more than 5+years of experience in Network & Security Implementation
• Proficient in installing, upgrading, troubleshooting, configuring, and supporting variety of Network & Security Devices
• Hands on experience in Implementation, Troubleshooting &configuring Cisco ASA 5500 Series
• Worked on S2S VPNs Implementations
• Providing support for Checkpoint R77 with GAiA and SPLAT
• Proficient at establishing User Tunnels in VPN Routers
• Implementing network security protocols, installing and supporting backup strategies, and planning/executing disaster recovery solutions
• Worked remotely on network design & implementation for client’s sites
• Excellent troubleshooting skills; tenaciously committed to the thorough resolution of technical issues
• Exceptional ability to grasp and master new technologies quickly and easily
• Strong communicator; able to interact effectively and positively with individuals of all technical abilities; An Out - of-the-Box Thinker, Believe in Team Work & Team Spirit, Decision Maker, Proactive, Customer Focused & Good Documentation / Presentation Skills
• Advanced knowledge, design, installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of Checkpoint Firewall R55 up to R77 version, Secure Platform Installation, VPN
• Knowledge of Intrusion Detection, DMZ, encryption, IPsec, proxy services
• Real-time experience in designing and assisting in deploying enterprise wide Network SSL Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA
• Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Checkpoint, CISCO, Juniper, Fortigate GUI and Shell.
• Configured and set up Juniper SRX gateways.
• Worked on Juniper SRX routers administration
• Knowledge of Juniper environment including SRX/Junos Space.
• Knowledge on Juniper Routers, HP & IBM blade switches
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550).
• Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Checkpoint, CISCO, Juniper, Fortigate GUI and Shell.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Firewall: Checkpoint R65/R70/R75/R77/Provider-1 firewall, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, NetScreen, Junos

Routers: Cisco 2600, 3600, 4400, 7200 Series

Switches: Cisco 2900/3500/6500 Catalyst Series, Cisco 2000/7000 Nexus Series

Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, VTP, ARP, VLAN, NAT, DNS, FTP, LAN/WAN

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/8, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Network Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on checkpoint R77on GAiA and SPLAT, Cisco ASA
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on Juniper EX series switches
• Administer, Maintain, and Deploy Imperva web application firewall, Juniper IPS & VPN systems, and McAfee network based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) devices.
• Handled more than 500+ security devices and upgrades
• Worked extensively on addressing the audit issues and mitigating the failed controls
• Worked for firewall rule analysis and firewall rules cleanup
• Experience on ASA firewall upgrades to 9.x
• Firewall migration to Cisco ASA to Checkpoint
• Collapsing the existing firewall rules and fine tuning the firewall policies for better performance
• Implemented and troubleshooting the Virtual firewalls (Contexts) solutions in ASA
• Configuring & Administration of the Checkpoint Firewall that includes creating Hosts, Nodes, Networks, Static & Hide NAT’s.
• Administering multiple Firewall of Juniper/NetScreen, in a managed distributed environment.
• Implementing Access maps & VLAN Access Lists (VACLs)
• Taking backups of all network devices configurations on Weekly & Monthly basis
• Monitoring the Links with CLI Manager
• Assessing the usage of bandwidth with the help of graphs & forwarding the periodical reports
• Responsible for installation, troubleshooting of firewalls (Cisco firewalls, Checkpoint firewalls and Juniper firewalls,) and related software, and LAN/WAN protocols.
• New firewall design, installation, routing configuration & implementation. Manage and support Remote Access VPN setup for users and field locations with Nortel VPN Contivity Switch, RSA Secure IDS two-factor authentication and Juniper SSL VPN.
• Configured Policies on Juniper Netscreen and SRX firewalls.
• Juniper 5600 and Juniper SRX 3600 on a daily basis, using NSM, as well as CLI when needed.
• Advanced knowledge in design, installation and configuration of Juniper NetScreen Firewall ISG 1000/2000, SSG series and NSM Administration.

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Firewall Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, troubleshooting of firewalls (Cisco firewalls, Checkpoint R70 firewalls) and related software, and LAN/WAN protocols
• Troubleshooting the VPN tunnels by analyzing the debug logs and packet captures
• Configuring failover for redundancy purposes for the security devices
• Implemented the stateful & serial failover for ASA firewalls
• Checkpoint Clustering and load balancing features
• Planning, designing and implementing a secure ODC Network setup for projects
• Responsible for implementing Data Center Security best practice, audit and compliance (PCI/SOX/DOD) requirements
• Automation of security operations and optimizing the usage of infrastructure
• Involved in migrating various versions of checkpoint to Provider -1 environment for around 40 Enforcement Modules
• Day to day activity includes Change Implementation on firewalls, log analysis and troubleshooting of network access issues
• Deploying IDS/IPS in Promiscuous mode and inline mode as per the requirement and monitoring the network traffic & customizing the signatures
• Creating Private VLANs & preventing VLAN hopping attacks & mitigating spoofing with snooping & IP source guard
• Configured VLANs with HSRP on Cisco 6506 Switches
• Creating and modifying rules, Diagnose and resolve LAN/WAN problems
• Ensure LAN/WAN environment is secure and appropriate recovery and redundancy issues are addressed
• Configuring Cisco 1841, 2821, 2851, 3745 Routers, Cisco 3560, 3750 Switches
• Log Management and audit Co-ordination for Network security equipment
• Responsible for Configuring of firewalls, routers & switches to meet business needs
• Monitoring and troubleshooting traffic through SmartView Tracker