NARENDRA VARMA VEGESNA

Ph.: +1-270-***-**** Email: adjfd7@r.postjobfree.com

Alpharetta, GA 30004

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Network Security Engineer of 5+ years’ experience by providing the industry/ organizational applications connected across data centers, LAN, internet and VPN services. Strong background in migrating the applications from private cloud to public cloud environments with securing them. Looking to leverage my knowledge and experience into a role as a Network Security Engineer in a challenging environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (contract) Atlanta, GA Security Management Specialist (Network Security Engineer) March 2017 – Present

• Ensuring the quality standards (ISO-27001:2013) with all internal and external audit requirements for the network

• Managing and maintaining Checkpoint Firewalls, F5 load balancers, Akamai CDN and AWS cloud computing with daily routine changes.

• Responsible for staging and implementing the Checkpoint firewall rules across the domains in a MDM environment and preparing the firewall reports in the run book for audit.

• Planning, designing and analyzing the group network in giving a performance comparative analysis and corrective actions as a part of Audit

• Building the infrastructure and connectivity to the respective applications across datacenters needed for migration from on premise (private cloud) to public cloud environments.

• Configuring and managing Checkpoint firewall policies, NAT and VPN by change tickets

• Managing AWS cloud computing components using Terraform and pipeline mechanism to deploy AWS infra structure (IaaS)

• Configuring Akamai property manager, SSL permiter certs, GTM routing to the respected data center origins

• Supporting AWS components such as Route-53, VPC, EC2, Cloud Front, Certificate Manager, ALB’s.

• Experience of DHCP, WINS, DNS services, TCP/IP in LAN/WAN environment.

• Migration of Apigee (api gateway) from on premise to Apigee paas cloud environment

• Monitoring the network traffic on SolarWinds and custom software SNMP protocol tools.

• Responsible for configuring F5 BigIP – LTM and GTM wideIP’s, VIP’s routing the traffic to the app stack servers.

• Handling SSL terminations for all web and app applications on F5 BigIP LTM module and Akamai CDN, AWS and Apigee

• Supporting application connectivity of micro services in OpenShift and handling failover fashion on OCP clusters across data centers

• Building EC2 instances using AMI or terraform and handling connectivity from internet/ internal by AWS ALB, NLB and securing with SSL terminations and security group.

• Building the network infrastructure (load balancers and firewalls) from rack & stack to deploying into the network.

• Building the firewalls and load balancers in a High-Availability setup.

• Troubleshooting the network dysconnectivity of applications on firewall and load balancers using TCPDUMP, Wireshark and analytics profile

• Responsible in handling all Fortinet and Checkpoint firewall requests (FCR’s) in the skybox and Tufin tools.

• Configuring DNS requests on IPAM tool (men and mice) windows server, Akamai and AWS route- 53

• Coordinating with third party product users for automating network devices AppViewX, Bomgar, Tableau, Openshift, F5, Fortinet, Checkpoint and AWS

• Providing solutions to the consumers based for their on prem applications and supporting them in build out on migrations to cloud environments

• Configuring Akamai setup for allowing external traffic into the corporate zone public endpoints.

• Configuring property manager and GTM origins at the akamai and routing the traffic to the endpoints.

• Handling the traffic flow from internet, VPN, DMZ and internal to respective endpoints.

• Responsible for implementing of technology initiatives include Network upgrades (firewalls and load balancers)

• Responsible for handling day-to-day operations in service-now for incident and change management tickets.

• Ensuring the project applications are audit ready and are not vulnerable over web protocols

• Worked in a Agile sprint team

• Responsible for handling the infrastructure user stories defined in a Agile sprint iteration period CIRA INFOTECH INC. Atlanta, GA

Network Quality Analyst January 2016 – March 2017

• Planning, designing and analyzing the group network in giving a performance comparative analysis and corrective actions as a part of Audit

• Installing, configuring new Cisco, Fortinet, Checkpoint and Palo Alto network devices from ground and deploying into the network

• Worked on ISO 27001:2013 risk assessment framework using NIST standards

• Understand the network requirements of Client and help implement as per the request

• Administer company information security testing and protection plans

• Configuring the cisco switches and routers from ground

• Building the palo alto PA 200 and 500 devices from ground and deploying them into the network

• Assisting operations in performing the risk assessments for applications/infrastructure and business continuity as per ISO 27001:2013

• Installing, maintaining and repairing security product systems to ensure compliance with applicable standards.

• Installing all network gear devices into a rack and RMA the fault devices (rack elevation)

• Performing peer reviews on security assessment reports Educational Experience

Six Sigma process (Deming cycle)

Agile Teams and process

ISO standards

Public, private and hybrid cloud environments

Skills

BigIP – LTM and GTM modules (3400, 6400, 4000 and Viprions) Akamai – CDN, GTM, WAF

Checkpoint Firewalls (13800, 21800, 15600)

Palo Alto Firewalls (200, 500 and 5000)

Fortinet Firewalls (300, 500, 1200D)

Cisco Switches and Routers

AWS - EC2, ALB/NLB, certificates, Route-53, cloudfront, VPC Ali Cloud – software load balancers, servers, SSL certificates Openshift container platform

Apigee – API gateway

Goals in a period

Preparing for ICS security certification

AWS cloud security associate

Google cloud certification

EDUCATION

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY Murray, KY

Master of Science in Applied Engineering and Technology Management 2014 to 2015 ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERISTRY Guntur, India

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering 2009 to 2013 CERTIFICATIONS

• Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA

• Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator CCSA

• Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer PCNSE7

• Aviatrix multi-cloud associate 2020

• AutoCAD 2013

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