KHUSHAL AMETA
Gandhinagar
Summary
- Functional expertise in Network technology, Planning\Implementation, Networking hardware and software, troubleshooting, client interfacing and customer service and support.
- Proficient in Installation, Configuration, provisioning, management & trouble shooting of network components/ peripherals with exposure across Cisco switches (3750,2960,4500.9000), IGP/EGP Routing, Cisco ISE-3595, Firepower 9300, Stealthwatch, ISE, Paloalto firewall
- Technically astute with the ability to independently and successfully spearhead assigned tasks with technical sophistication and finesse in addition to awareness of latest trends and technological advancements in the industry.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Service
Gandhinagar
12.2021 - Current
- Managing 100+ Palo Alto Firewalls across global enterprise environments, including policy management, optimization, and health monitoring.
- Administering 80+ IPSec Site-to-Site VPN tunnels, including creation, troubleshooting of Phase-1/Phase-2 issues, rekey failures, and tunnel stability problems.
- Advanced GlobalProtect Troubleshooting—portal/gateway issues, SSL handshake problems, certificate errors, DNS/FQDN resolution issues, HIP checks, and client connectivity failures.
- Experience with Panorama for centralized firewall management, template stacks, device groups, log forwarding, and configuration backups.
- Oversaw company's entire Network by configuring and maintaining Network hardware and Software, troubleshooting Network issues and ensuring network Security and performance
- Handling Cisco umbrella and Stealthwatch (Secure Network Analytics) in Zimmer Biomet Pvt ltd
- Troubleshooting Cisco ISE issue such as - Whitelisting, Profiling, 802.1x authentication issue Creating & Modifying DACL
- Blocking and unblocking the URL over Cisco umbrella with different groups
- Maintaining the SLA and handle the incident and task on timely basis
- Creating the policy on Cisco ISE and changes on DACL as per the customer requirement
- Working on ISE profiling
- Creating custom security events and role Alarms
- Implementing Palo alto firewall Security rules, Nat Rule, Decryption rules , Certificate renewal,IPS and IDS Signature
- Configured Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) policies including URL filtering, firewall rules, SSL inspection, and sandboxing
- Implemented Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) for secure, zero-trust access to internal applications.
- Implemented Azure AD (Entra ID) SAML-based SSO for administrative UI access across paloalto platforms.
Network Professional
Intec Infonet Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - 11.2021
- Designing rule & creating Incident Record (IR) Firewall Rule Request form as per customer requirement.
- Join calls with customer to understand their requirement.
- Adding rule verifying & correcting it in Cisco firewall
- Handle day to day security incidents.
- Planning and implementing of customer changes, based around an ITIL framework.
- Implementation & migration security devices.
- Firewall upgrade.
- Firewall migration.
- Handles incident & change process.
- Create a Policy on cisco ISE and adding the Network Device
- Creating a Profiling on cisco ISE if required
- Taking a live log for Radius and Tacacs+ if authentication Fail
- Client - IIT Roorkee
Senior Officer
ICICI BANK LTD
Kekri
05.2016 - 07.2017
- Responded to customer inquiries, complaints and comments on a daily basis, and determined corrective action for high-call volume department.
Education
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
Sir Padampat Singhania University
Udaipur, India12th -
Govt Senior Secondary School
10th -
Govt Senior Secondary School
Skills
- Site Migrations
- Zscaler
- Netskope
- Cisco switches
- Routing Protocol
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- Switching
- 8021Q
- Ether Channel
- Port-Security
- Redundancy Protocol
- HSRP
- VRRP
- GLBP
- Standard & Tech
- OSI
- TCP/IP
- Ethernet
- Tunnels
- Security
- CISCO Firepower 9300 Appliance Firewall
- Paloalto
- Cisco ASA
- ISE
- Cisco PRIME
- Cisco Stealthwatch
- Umbrella
- Servicenow
Certification
CCNP Security, CSCO13380270
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/29/94
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Service
12.2021 - Current
Network Professional
Intec Infonet Pvt Ltd
03.2021 - 11.2021
Senior Officer
ICICI BANK LTD
05.2016 - 07.2017
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering
Sir Padampat Singhania University
12th -
Govt Senior Secondary School
10th -
Govt Senior Secondary School