Ajay Chand
Network & Cyber Security
New Delhi
Summary
- 7.5+ Years of experience in Network/Security/Cybersecurity and with technical expertise in the Design, implementation, operations, and support functions.
- Presently associated with Inspira Enterprise Ltd as a Security Constant lead. Comprehensive understanding of Network Security including Firewalls, Proxy, Web Application Firewall & networking concepts pertaining to LAN and WAN (TCP/IP).
- Meticulous Technical Lead strictly adheres to both client-provided technical requirements and internal business goals. Balances project prioritization to fulfill both contractual obligations and internal revenue requirements. Provides foresight and management designed to grow satisfied customer bases and revenue figures.
- Amiable Technical Lead ready to rapidly onboard new personnel and kick start new projects. Achieves rapid and exceptional completion metrics through careful utilization of available skills and technical assets. Assembles effective teams by exploiting complementary competencies and collaborative employee relationships.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certificates
Skills
Checkpoint Firewall, FortiGate Firewall
F5 (All-Solutions): DDOS, GTM, BIG-IQ, LTM, ASM WAF, BIG-IQ, API etc
Checkpoint Sandblast, Forti-Sandbox, SSL Off-Loader & DDOS (F5 & Radware)
Palo-Alto Firewall, Load Balancer, McAfee Proxy & Bluecoat proxy
VAPT Skill: Nesuss, NMAP, Web vulnerabilities, Web Exploitation, SAST/DAST & OWASP TOP-10 Attacks
AWS Cloud & Cloud WAF
Work History
Technical Lead
Inspira Enterprise Ltd.
New Delhi
10.2021 - Current
- Responsible for providing detailed technical designs & architectures for Enterprise & Government Security Solutions.
- Implementations and Configuration of firewalls (Checkpoint, Fortinet & Palo-Alto) and troubleshooting in HA, VPN &NAT related issues.
- Implementations and configuration of WAF. Creating custom polices, providing exception, whitelisting IPs, URL, File Types, Monitoring/Analyzing false Negative & False positive traffic on daily basis, working on artifacts and Bot attack.
- Configuration and implementations F5 Products also (LTM, GTM, ASM, DDOS, IPS, BIG-IQ & API).
- Checkpoint Firewall & Fortinet Firewall (providing support to Operation team for troubleshooting P1-P2 issues.
- Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance and implementation of information security standards, procedures and guidelines.
- Worked with teams to develop company-wide information assurance, security standards and procedures.
- Assessed threats, risks and vulnerabilities from emerging security issues to advise pertinent stakeholders on appropriate measures.
- Handling proper management, maintenance, configuration and change management of security infrastructure
- Analyzed security policies for usefulness and value to suggest security policy improvements.
- Delivering security projects including technical design and sign off, infrastructure build delivery and support to Operation teams.
Senior Administrator
Wipro Ltd
Bengaluru
05.2021 - 10.2021
- Developed risk assessment reports to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
- Configuration, implementation, and problem determination across the major Web application firewall (F5) platforms and understanding each customer environment at a detailed level.
- WAF Creating custom policies, providing exception, whitelisting Entities, Monitoring.
- Collaborated with external vendors to perform penetration tests on Public facing Applications.
- Analyzed security policies for usefulness and value to suggest security policy improvements.
- Conducted risk analysis, system certifications, auditing, security documentation and security testing.
- Designed tests and tools to break into security-protected applications and networks to probe for vulnerabilities.
- Responded to, researched and resolved issues from internal staff, external departments and customers
- Responded to, researched and resolved issues from internal staff, external departments and customers.
Technology Consultant
Inspira Enterprise Pvt. Ltd
Delhi
10.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Network & Security Engineer
Targus Tech Pvt Ltd
Gurugram
10.2017 - 09.2019
- Targus Technologies provide System Integration, Network Integration, Software Solution’s, and Strategic IT Consulting right through IT implementation to customers
- Roles and Responsibilities Handling:
- Provided remote day to day firewall/VPN/LB support for PAN India, which spans across multiple platforms including Cisco, F5, Checkpoint, FortiGate & Palo-Alto
- Configuration, implementation, and problem determination across the major firewall platforms and understanding each customer environment at a detailed level
- Handled proper management, maintenance, configuration and change management of firewall infrastructure
- Carry out firewall policy changes includes Access-list, NAT and routing in a predefined and secure fashion
- A smooth conduct of business operations in-terms of firewall rule management
- Support for Fail-over testing all applicable firewall devices to ensure compliance with the Networks 99.99% uptime Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Upgrading Checkpoint firewall Gaia, FortiGate firewall FortiOS and Juniper SRX using TFTP, WinSCP & GUI
- Responsible for auditing, analyzing and correlating firewall and network device log information and provide action to remediate any discoveries that pose a threat to the environment.
Network & Security Engineer
Nelito System Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Center Bank of India
07.2016 - 10.2017
Associate Engineer
HCL Info System Ltd
Noida
03.2015 - 04.2016
Certification
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).
Education
High School - PCM
High School
Uttrakhand, India 07.2007 - 07.2009
Senior Secondary Schools - PCM
Senior Secondary Schools
Uttrakhand, India 07.2009 - 07.2011
Polytechnic Diploma - Information Technology
Polytechnic Diploma
Govt. Poly Diploma Collage Dawarhat, Uttrakhand 07.2011 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Computer Applications - Computer And Information Sciences
IEC University
HIMACHAL PRADESH, India 07.2017 - 07.2020
MBA - Information Technology
Subharti University
Meerut, India 03.2021 - 03.2023
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