Nov 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Managed a team of professionals, including full-stack developers, network engineers, and operations personnel, to drive automation efforts across the organization.
• Led the integration of security architecture solutions with network automation projects, ensuring that cybersecurity requirements were seamlessly incorporated into iterative development cycles.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to align automation initiatives with business objectives and security needs.
• Spearheaded the development of an end-to-end automation framework for various network devices, including F5, Firewalls, and Switches.
• Utilized Scrum practices, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to iterate quickly and adapt to changing requirements.
• Received recognition for visionary leadership in agile automation initiatives, contributing to significant cost savings
• Conducted code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to best practices, with a focus on achieving long-term strategic goals.
• Managed stakeholder expectations and communication channels to ensure alignment with automation objectives and address concerns effectively.
• Ensured that documentation was comprehensive and up to date to facilitate transparency and alignment with automation objectives.
• Championed a culture of continuous improvement and agile innovation within the automation team, driving the adoption of new technologies and best practices.
• Implemented performance dashboards and compliance reports to track the effectiveness of automation efforts and communicate results to stakeholders.
• Product Owner for various 3rd party tools which involved contract management, compliance, governance, and audit handling worth of crores.
• Successfully deployed automation solutions for network devices, resulting in enhanced operational efficiency and reduced incident response times.
• Built strong partnerships with stakeholders, fostering collaboration and alignment between automation projects and business goals.

Jun 2016 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos · India · Hybrid

• Governance, Risk & Complaince along with implementation on Cloud
• Successful completion of many projects on-time and on-budget along with managing a team of 10+ people.
• Handling end to end client delivery and set proper expectations by resolving conflicts thus prevented client dissatisfaction and unnecessary executive escalations.
• Received many appreciations from clients for successfully handling team and delivering the solution on time.
• Planning and implementation of ISO 27001 in Security and Cloud Architecture which included Palo Alto Firewall, F5 load balancers, AWS, Azure and Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Pulse Secure devices. Monitor by conducting internal audits for adherence of ISMS standards
• Designed Information security governance controls to achieve PCIDSS, ISO 27001.
• Conducting security Risk Assessment and laying out risk treatment plan to mitigate critical risks. Handling audit of firewall rules and notify the Customer with the rules in the summary report.
• Provided solutions as well improvement plans for clients along with training end users on usage of various security engineering tools like Splunk, SIEM, Tufin, SNOW, IAM for automation.
• Auditing & compliance of all the security & cloud devices to prevent threat as well as unauthorized access (IAM) along with change and incident
• Designing & Migration of whole network from Trend Micro firewall to Cisco ASA 5555 along with Sourcefire.
• Configuring protocols like IDS, IPS, VLAN tagging, syslog along with implementation of whole network setup.
• HLD/LLD/Runbooks/Traffic flow workbooks were prepared along with testing and handing over to operations.
• Preparation of RFP for the client to migrate to Azure net

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

•  Capturing live traffic, configuring and troubleshooting on Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls.
• Review Policies and SOPs associated with secure networking infrastructure implementations.
• VA/CA/PT for networking devices.
• Prepared audit reports detailing results of audits and provided recommendations for remediation, as well as follow up review of corrective action plans.
• Prepare comprehensive, well-written audit work papers documenting the test steps performed, audit results and recommendations.
• Review Policies and SOPs associated with secure networking infrastructure implementations

Oct 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• Configuring, troubleshooting and implementing on Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall.
• Troubleshooting on failed change request.
• Implementing the scripts prepared for F5 load balancer.
• Creating/Modifying the existing configuration of the Firewall includes Rules, policies, Routes.
• Troubleshooting of other Devices in network such as Cisco Switch and Cisco Router in relation with firewall.
• Implementing DNS and DHCP addition deletion requests using Proteus tool.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• ccna, jncia-junos, jncia-fwv,jncis-fwv and itil certified.
• configuring and troubleshooting juniper and checkpoint firewalls with knowledge of cisco asa firewall.
• change and incident management along with attending CAB/TAB meeting
• Switching Technologies –VLAN, VRRP, STP,NSRP
• Basic networking concepts-TCP/IP, IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, ICMP, ARP, SMTP.
• VPN- IPSec with tunnel mode and transport mode, L2tp vpn, Dial-up vpn.
• Tools worked on:- Service Manager 9, NETSRM , NOTA, REMEDY, CITRIX

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Technical Assistance Engineer (Tier-2) for Juniper Networks Firewall VPN (Juniper TAC) handling escalated cases and shift lead for the team troubleshooting the Firewall
• Tremendous hands on experience at configuration and troubleshooting of juniper firewalls in live network and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Have excellent technical, communication and leadership abilities.
• Handling & Resolving High Priority and critical issues with Juniper Firewall products.
• As a TAC Engineer, have a good experience in configuring and troubleshooting VPN between Net screen and a third vendor device like Cisco Pix, checkpoint and many other vendors/
• Ability to relate vendor specific problems with general networking which provides me the adaptability to work across different vendors.
• VPN specialist dealing in Site to Site and Client to site VPN configurations and troubleshooting.
• Configuring and troubleshooting NSRP (Net screen Redundancy Protocol) which is used for device failover for redundancy.
• Replicating the customer issues in the lab and providing appropriate solutions to the customer.
• Configuring and troubleshooting all types of NAT and UTM features like Anti-virus, Deep inspection, URL filtering and Screening
• Worked in 24*7 shifts