Kanayo Precious Mobosi

PALO ALTO FIREWALL ENGINEER/NETWORK SECURITY ENGINEER

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Professional Summary

Seasoned and detail-oriented Palo Alto Firewall engineer with over 7+ years’ experience, expertise in the field of Information Technology/ cyber-Security. Reputation for aligning Palo Alto Firewall procedures with project requirements. Record of working on complex projects, including Optimization of Security policy rules, VPN, Upgrading of fire wall. History of delivering Palo Alto Firewall installation, configuration, managing, Protecting and fixing of security concerns. Manage border security systems such as Intrusion Detection/Prevention System, support, Monitor and take care of existing changes on Palo Alto Network.

Knowledge on Zscaler Cloud security platform, for securing local internet breakout.

Professional Certificate

Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)

Professional Experience

Extensive knowledge in configuring and deploying Next Generation Firewalls including (Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA)

Strong experience in manage and administering multiple Firewalls using Panorama. Palo Alto design and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering).

Network Security log analysis using splunk and python

Strong interpersonal, collaboration, customer service and decision-making skills, with ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating accountability.

Responsible for implementing firewall technologies including general configuration, optimization, security policy, rules creation and modification of Palo Alto Firewalls.

Strong knowledge on leveraging advanced firewalls features like APP-ID, User-ID, Global Protect, Wildfire, NAT policies and Security Profiles.

Extensive Packet level debugging and troubleshooting on Palo Alto Firewalls to resolve numerous network issues.

Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly adapt to change

People skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients with the ability to explain and elaborate on technical details

Work Experience

Palo Alto FIREWALL ENGINEER January 2022-Present Bank of America Atlanta GA

•Troubleshoot traffic passing through managed firewalls via logs and packet captures

•Provisioned and installed firewalls Palo Alto and Cisco ASA security policies.

•Performed Back up, upgrade and restore on Palo Alto firewalls.

•Installed, configured, managed and documented firewall infrastructures.

•Deploy and configured VPN appliances for site-to-site VPN

•Involved in escalation problems for Routing, Switching and firewall connectivity issue.

•Set up threat prevention through anti-virus, anti-spyware, vulnerability protections, threat exceptions, file blocking, file filtering, URL filtering, app filtering, detecting credential phishing, identifying new malicious payload signatures, and using DNS queries to find infected host.

•Analyze and review security threats from firewall, IDS, IPS, Antivirus and other security threat data sources.

•Configured HA for Palo Alto firewall for redundancy. Manually fail-over to test High Availability during Downtime windows

Network Firewall Engineer January 2021 - December 2022

Comforttext Inc.

East Providence, RI

•Configured, managed and upgraded FW, IDS/IPS, encryption and a wide variety of other security products/appliances.

•Performed system and network Audits.

•Analyzed and reviewed security threats from firewall (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems

•Install, configure, deploy, manage firewall infrastructures.

•(IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Antivirus (AV) and other security threat data sources.

•Participated in Trouble-shooting application issues that may involve firewalls.

•Deployed and configured IPsec VPN appliances for site-to-site based on business requirement.

•Designed, Implemented and Troubleshooted Cisco Routers and Switches using different routing protocols.

•Worked on various Models of Palo Alto Next-Generation FW, Wireshark and various internet tools to assist in analysis.

Firewall Engineer May 2019 - December 2021

Mphasis,

Great Chicago.

•Provisioned and installed firewalls (Palo Alto, and Cisco ASA) security policies.

•Upgraded PAN-OS on the Palo Alto firewall through a comprehensive backup process for data reliability.

•Work with Panorama for efficient and centralized control of security.

•Implemented and Managed VPN Networks of the Customer through Palo Alto Firewalls

•Acted as the root administrator for the Palo Alto firewall by managing other administrator's permissions, authentication methods (including two-factor authentication), and dashboards on a per case basis.

•Set up threat prevention through anti-virus, anti-spyware, vulnerability protections, threat exceptions, file blocking, file filtering, URL filtering, app filtering, detecting credential phishing, identifying new malicious payload signatures, and using DNS queries to find infected hosts

Network Firewall Engineer Feb. 2018 - April 2019

Saipem Nig. Ltd.

•Configured HA clusters for check point and HA for Palo Alto firewall for redundancy Manually fail-over to test High Availability.

•Involved in escalation problems for Routing, Switching and firewall connectivity issue.

•Provisioned and installed firewalls Palo Alto and Cisco ASA security policies

•Managed Palo Alto firewalls from the command line using Putty sessions.

•Worked on routing and switching protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and VLAN.

•Worked on Route-Reflectors to troubleshoot BGP issues related to customer route prefixes also route filtering using Route-maps.

•Implementation, optimization, analysis, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.

•Performed back up, upgrade and restore on Palo Alto firewalls

•Troubleshot traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures.

IT Support Specialist January 2015 – January 2018

Saipem Nig Ltd.

•Maintaining and monitoring the company’s computer system and networks

•diagnosing hardware and software faults, resolving issues and providing immediate support to client and employees

•Installing and configuring computer hardware and operating systems

•Analyzing call logs to detect underlying issues, and setting up system faults and fixing technical

•Managing hardware such as switches, cabling, deploy workstation and training end users with programs and working in conjunction with help desk team to resolve issues as they occur

•Provide assistance to client with the use of computer hardware and software, including, printing, installation, word processing, electronic mail and operating system

•Provide base life IT support to non-technical personnel within the business

Education

Rivers State Polytechnic Higher National Diploma

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