Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• ● Owned enterprise-wide firewall transformation initiatives, leading the replacement of 100+ Palo Alto PA-220 firewalls with PA-440 platforms, improving throughput, reliability, and long-term scalability.
• ● Drove security governance and risk reduction efforts by reviewing, redesigning, and remediating 1,000+ high-risk firewall rules, eliminating insecure any/any source, destination, application, and service configurations in alignment with security best practices.
• ● Architected and deployed 50+ Equinix virtual firewalls, enabling secure hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity while ensuring compliance with organizational security standards.
• ● Led log analysis and security monitoring initiatives using Splunk, integrating logs from Panorama-managed Palo Alto firewalls to enhance visibility, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.
• ● Directed response and resolution for critical P1 and P2 security incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams, performing root cause analysis (RCA), and implementing long-term corrective actions.
• ● Played a key leadership role within the Deploy and Release function, overseeing change management, validating security controls, and ensuring timely, risk-free implementation of new features and firewall policies.
• ● Designed and enforced user-based security policies in Palo Alto Prisma Access, configuring access rules via the Prisma proxy to securely control user access to applications and internet resources.
• ● Managed firewall policy lifecycle and compliance using AlgoSec, adding and removing rules to maintain accurate compliance reporting and ensure alignment with regulatory and organizational security requirements.

Oct 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India