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NASEER AHMAD ZARGAR

Srinagar

Summary

Dynamic Network & Security Engineer with extensive experience at Tachyon Security BV, excelling in Fortinet integration and SASE solutions. Proven ability to lead teams and enhance security posture through effective incident response and policy development. Skilled in TCP/IP and adept at fostering collaboration across technical teams to achieve project success.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Network Security Engineer III

Tachyon Security BV
Banglore
04.2023 - Current
  • Managed Network multiple clients with Fortinet Products.
  • Content management and lead a team of 12 people.
  • Migration Projects from Palo Alto, ASA, FTD to FortiGate.
  • Brown Field Implementation of existing projects.
  • POC for SASE Solutions like Zscaler.
  • Fortinet integration with Zscaler and roll out.
  • Active Participation with Customer managements regarding best practices and suggestions.
  • In-house training for FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and FortEMS.
  • Escalation Handlings.
  • Automating multiple Fortinet products.

Network Security Engineer II

4/2022 to 04/2023
04.2022 - 04.2023
  • Establish the networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation and defining, documenting and enforcing system standards
  • Troubleshooting Customer issues from FortiManager and FortiAnalyser and Forti-EMS to customer on-prem FortiGates
  • Establish and on-board the best practice solution of FortiGate to customer and provide root cause analysis to customer problems
  • Effectively communicate with technical/non-technical personnel before, during and after engagement
  • Research about ongoing issues of the customer, develop test plan environment, tools in lab prior to deployment in production environment for example SSL DPI, AD VPN, BGP, SDWAN and EMS(Endpoint Security)
  • Incident response L2/L3, handling escalations, implementing configuring the FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager and EMS Getting to root cause of abovementioned troubleshooting using the packet capture, packet sniffer, debug flow and diagnostics results

Network Security Engineer I

12/2021 - 04/2022
12.2021 - 04.2022
  • Ticket Handling and Response (Analysis, Investigation, remediation for the network and Security issues and escalate the issues to L2)
  • Traffic/Monitoring/Log/IPS/Web filter event analysis using multiple tools like FortiAnalyzer, Forti-EMS, FortiGate Firewall, FortiManager, PRTG, Zabbix
  • Device Registration on the corresponding Centralized Servers like FortiManager (FortiGates), Wireless Controller (Cisco Access Points), Cisco Switches (Prime Infrastructure, Cisco ISE)
  • Fine-tuning IPS/Firewall Alerts and Configurations
  • Security Review, improvement and hardening (Vulnerability Assessments/Reporting)
  • Security reports and Auditing
  • RCA, SOP, MOP, Runbooks/Playbooks
  • Created Network Diagrams and Architecture (Microsoft VISIO)
  • Generated and worked on the tickets with Fortinet TAC

Education

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication

University of Kashmir
01.2021

Skills

  • TCP/IP
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • IPsec
  • SSL/TLS
  • OSPF
  • BGP
  • STP
  • LLDP
  • VLANs
  • DTP
  • Ether Channel
  • MAB
  • Dot1x
  • Fortinet SDWAN
  • IPSec Redundancy
  • SSL VPN
  • Web/URL Filtering
  • SSL DPI
  • Certificate Operations
  • High CPU and Memory Troubleshooting
  • Firewall HA
  • AAA
  • Radius
  • LDAP
  • TACACs
  • Logging
  • Monitoring
  • Centralized Management
  • Logging and Reporting
  • Endpoint Security
  • Firewall management
  • Secure policy development
  • Orchestration
  • Microsoft Office
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • OneNote
  • SharePoint
  • Incident Response
  • Incident Investigations
  • Reports and Documentation
  • Workbooks
  • Playbooks
  • RCAs
  • Runbooks
  • Patch plans

Certification

  • Fortinet Certified Solutions Specialist FCSS: NSE 7 ( SDWAN and Enterprise Firewall) (Network Security)
  • Fortinet Certified Professional FCP: NSE 4 and NSE 5(FortiGate Administrator, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiEMS)
  • Fortinet SDWAN Architect
  • Fortinet Enterprise Firewall Administration

Personal Information

Title: Network & Security Engineer

Accomplishments

  • Rookie Rockstar
  • Customer Obsession
  • Emerging Leader
  • Stellar Service

Timeline

Network Security Engineer III

Tachyon Security BV
04.2023 - Current

Network Security Engineer II

4/2022 to 04/2023
04.2022 - 04.2023

Network Security Engineer I

12/2021 - 04/2022
12.2021 - 04.2022

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication

University of Kashmir

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