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Jay Sharma

Jay Sharma

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Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCompany CultureStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing

Summary

Flexible Escalation Engineer with 4 years of experience helping clients maintain smooth operations. Expertise in Zscaler proxy ,Firewall systems and Network security environments. Commended for rapidly and effectively resolving downtime and efficiently integrating new hardware and components.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr. Professional Services Consultant

Zscaler
Mohali, Punjab
01.2025 - Current
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement by regularly soliciting feedback from both clients and team members.
  • Streamlined project management processes for increased efficiency and improved client outcomes.
  • Collaborated with sales teams to develop targeted proposals that effectively communicated the value proposition of our professional services offerings.
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by delivering tailored consulting services and addressing specific needs.

Escalation Engineer/Team Leader Manager

Zscaler Softech
Mohali, Punjab
05.2022 - Current

Key Responsibilities

  • Day to Day working with Proxy, Authentications and VPN related technical concerns
  • Working as an escalation engineer for Zscaler focusing on timely handling escalations from the L1, L2 and L3 engineer along with TAMs
  • Handling critical accounts escalations and issues
  • For Tier 1 Zscaler products like ZIA, ZCC, ZPA and ZDX
  • Collecting necessary information's including logs, error messages, and other relevant details, in order to identify and troubleshoot the issue
  • Replicating the issue in the lab and providing the best possible plan of action
  • Working along with the Engineering team if required to provide solution to the customer within the defined SLA
  • Acting as the mentor to the other technical engineers and articulate new technologies to them
  • Thoroughly assisting customers by writing Knowledge based articles and answering community forum queries
  • Advised senior personnel on potential process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment
  • Conducting trainings and conducts interviews for the hiring of candidates

Technical Support Engineer

Fortinet Techonologies
04.2021 - Current
  • For Tier 1 Fortinet products like Fortigate, Fortianalyzer and Fortimanager
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Working with Fortinet related products plus the other firewalls such as Palo Alto, Cisco ASA etc
  • Day to Day working with authentication, VPN and VRRP (HA cluster) related technical concerns
  • Collecting necessary information's including logs, error messages, and other relevant details, in order to identify and troubleshoot the issue
  • Replicating the issue in the lab and providing the best possible plan of action
  • Involving L3/Engineering team if required to provide solution to the customer within the defined SLA
  • Acting as the mentor to the other technical engineers and articulate new technologies to them
  • Thoroughly assisting customers by writing Knowledge based articles and answering community forum queries
  • Advised senior personnel on potential process improvements to increase support quality and expedite ticket fulfillment
  • Performed root cause analysis of reported issues to decisively discern and enact corrections
  • Served as primary point of contact for support relating to owned solutions and products.

Technical Support Engineer

CSS Corp Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
04.2019 - 04.2021
  • For HPE-ARUBA Networks on, server Clearpass
  • Protocols: Utilizes standard RADIUS protocol for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
  • Authentication protocols: Supports a wide range of authentication protocols, including MS-CHAP,EAP- MSCHAPv2,Protected EAP (PEAP), EAP-Transport Layer Security (TLS), etc
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Working with different network environment comprising of Aruba devices Integrated with multiple vendors like Cisco, Aerohive, Ruckus, HPE, PaloAlto
  • Ensuring prompt resolution of customer queries and complex Issues/requirements throughout the setup Involving Wireless Access Points and Authentication Servers
  • Ability to articulate solution to escalated Issues and driving to effective closures
  • Replicating the issue in the lab and providing the best possible plan of action
  • Served as primary point of contact for support relating to owned solutions and products
  • Broke down and evaluated user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

SRM University
04.2014 - 04.2018

12th -

Sir Padampat Singhania School
01.2012 - 07.2013

10th -

Sir Padampat Singhania School
01.2010 - 04.2011

Skills

PRODUCT -ZIA, ZCC, ZPA, ZDX, Fortigate And Aruba Clearpass

Aruba Clearpass, AOS controllers, Microsoft LDAP, Fortigate FirewallNetwork, Security and Routing protocols : BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, TCP, VPN, NAT, ACLs, DHCP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, VLAN, STP, VRRP LACP, SSL OffloadingBasics of LinuxDevOPS basic knowledgeTicketing Tools: Wireshark, Salesforce and ForticareAuthentication: LDAP, SAML, EAP-PEAP, EAP-TLS, Certificate based authentication

Proxy, SAML

Certification

ACCP

Additional Information

  • Additional Information AWARDS & EXTRACURRICULAR : , Awarded as Outstanding performer for consistently contributing in higher productivity during FY'20-21
  • Highest KB articles writer in Zscaler for a single quarter
  • Consistent bonus award winner in Fortinet for achieving all the parameters effectively
  • National Level Basketball player ,State level Badminton and Table Tennis player
  • Winner of National Robotics Championship, Chennai

Accomplishments

  • Best performer awarded by Aruba Technologies
  • Won multiple spot awards monthly sponsored by Fortinet Inc.
  • Was awarded with Star perfomer by Zscaler Technologies .

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline

Sr. Professional Services Consultant

Zscaler
01.2025 - Current

ZCCP-IA, ZTNA security specialist

06-2022

Escalation Engineer/Team Leader Manager

Zscaler Softech
05.2022 - Current

NSE7

04-2022

ACCP

04-2021

Technical Support Engineer

Fortinet Techonologies
04.2021 - Current

Technical Support Engineer

CSS Corp Pvt. Ltd
04.2019 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

SRM University
04.2014 - 04.2018

12th -

Sir Padampat Singhania School
01.2012 - 07.2013

10th -

Sir Padampat Singhania School
01.2010 - 04.2011
Jay Sharma