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Imtiyaz Ahmed

Bengaluru

Summary

A distinguished senior level IT professional with an extensive experience in Network and Cloud security. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide productive solutions. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethics, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

L3 Product Support Engineer

Zscaler
Bengaluru
10.2022 - Current
  • Providing level 3 support to various incidents and escalations related to Zscaler products ZPA and ZIA
  • Educating customer to follow best practices related to ZPA/ZIA implementation.
  • Drafted documentation on tutorials and FAQs to eliminate unnecessary service calls and avoidable user errors.
  • Collaborated with vendors and developers to resolve complex technical issues and recurrent fault's.
  • Updated software versions with patches and new installations to close security loopholes and protect users.
  • Contributed to knowledge base by creating and maintaining articles and other technical documents.
  • Resolved customer reported incidents in a timely manner, while ensuring customer satisfaction.
  • Explained technology-related details in easy-to-understand terms to individuals from different backgrounds and in various job positions.

Lead Engineer-NOC

Acumera
Bengaluru
07.2017 - 09.2022
  • Managing Network and Security Infrastructure, which includes Fortinet and Juniper firewalls
  • Troubleshooting various reactive incidence, implementing emergency and scheduled changes on the firewalls
  • Providing Branch-SDO services through cloud orchestrator device (CXD's) for various customers in a cloud Environment.
  • Identified opportunities to improve network, application and cloud security through implementation of secure frameworks.
  • Assisted with developing training materials to cover organizational policies, procedures, tools and monitoring requirements.
  • Monitored systems for indications of threats, security breaches or intrusions.

Network Engineer

COLLABERA, IBM
Bengaluru
02.2017 - 07.2017

Worked as Network Engineer.

  • Managing Network and Security Infrastructure, which includes Cisco Router, Switch, Palo Alto/Fortinet Firewalls.
  • Troubleshooting various reactive and proactive incidence, implementing emergency and scheduled changes.
  • Determining the root cause for a repeated incident.
  • Performed preventive maintenance of networking hardware and related software.
  • Managing firewalls (Vyatta-Brocade) in a cloud environment (soft-layer)
  • Monitored system performance to promote network speed, availability and reliability.
  • Educated and trained personnel on new technologies.

RIMS Engineer

MICROLAND
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 02.2017
  • (RIMS-Engineer) for client General Electrics.
  • Managing Network and Security Infrastructure, which includes, Router, Switch, Firewalls & Load-Balancers
  • Verifying the standard configuration of various networking devices and taking corrective actions if the Configurations does not match with the given standards
  • Troubleshooting various reactive and proactive incidence, implementing emergency and scheduled changes.
  • Configured routers, switches, firewalls and other hardware to deploy and manage LAN, WAN and wireless networks.
  • Monitored system performance to promote network speed, availability and reliability.

Education

Bachelor in Engineering -

VTU University
MVJ College Of Engineering
01.2015

Skills

  • Zscaler internet access(ZIA)
  • Zscaler private access(ZPA)
  • Zero Trust Architecture
  • Cloud Security
  • Fortinet Firewall
  • NGFW
  • IPS/IDS
  • Webfiltering
  • Application Filtering
  • DNS control
  • Browser Isolation
  • VPN client such as Forticlient, Global Protect
  • Fortimanager
  • Fortianalyzer
  • IPsec VPN
  • SSL VPN
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Network Operational Enhancements
  • Problem-Solving
  • Technical Documentation
  • Project Management
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Escalation management
  • Disaster Recovery Planning

Languages

Urdu, English
First Language

Certification

  • Zero Trust Architecture: Standard Certification number :: db9c1c44-c879-47c8-9965-325901399e15
  • Zscaler Certified Cloud Professional
    Private Access(ZCCP-PA) Certification number: 5de78511-c156-41f9-a5da-b443abf6a3f0
  • Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator
    Private Access(ZCCA-PA) Certification number: ddc9d614-1415-4e85-9487-b7cafbf79a3e
  • Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator Internet Access(ZCCA-IA) Certification number: 44579e80-8e16-4601-b11f-d361bc274378
  • CCNA (R&S) Cisco ID :: CSCO12944100
  • CCNA (Security) Cisco ID :: CSCO12944100

Timeline

L3 Product Support Engineer

Zscaler
10.2022 - Current

Lead Engineer-NOC

Acumera
07.2017 - 09.2022

Network Engineer

COLLABERA, IBM
02.2017 - 07.2017

RIMS Engineer

MICROLAND
06.2015 - 02.2017

Bachelor in Engineering -

VTU University
Imtiyaz Ahmed