Naveenkumar Arulmani

• Identified cost improvement changes and cost savings plans to increase company savings.
• Identification and adapting the new cutting edge technologies in the current market
• Managing the team 20+ members to handle the Perimeter security operations
• Performing PoC on new concepts like Zero trust, Browser isolation, etc
• Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
• Developed proposals and presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
• Held monthly meetings to create business plans and workshops to drive successful business.

• Functioned as point of contact for project administrators and managers focused on timely and successful completion of full lifecycles of assigned projects.
• Assumed senior management workloads in absence of general manager to maintain operations continuity.
• Partnered with upper management in executing functional strategies and reporting capabilities.
• Liaised with team members, stakeholders and vendors to coordinate activities, provisioning, environment setup, risk mitigation and follow-up.

Projects

• 360 degree Risk assessment of automobile customer’s shop flood environment.
• Delivered IT strategy plan for FMCG customer De-merger activity
  Prepared SIEM proposal design for multiple customers environment
• Received multiple appreciation from Customers/Deloitte partner for achieving smooth deliveries.

• Spearheaded and led major network installation and upgrade project.
• Analyzed, troubleshot and enhanced network performance to drive efficiency.
• Demonstrated success in dealing with firewalls, IDS/IPS, SEIM, access control and load-balancing.
• Led meetings with departmental managers to review project status, propose changes and draft action plans.
• Designed the seamless CISCO Any connect solution for better availability in various DCs using GTM/LTM
• Technical lead of implementing the complete end to end Remote location environment
• Being part of Customer’s acquisition Interconnect project implementation

Projects:

• Standardized the Panorama Template configurations for easier Management
• Performed the Panorama/Palo Alto/ASA upgraded without impacting the business services

• Manage and maintain the 250+ customers across multiple countries.
• Technical account manager for some of the critical customer
• Handling of multivendor products (Fortinet,CISCO,Checkpoint,Zscaler,etc) and technologies
  (Firewall,IPS,Proxy,VPN,etc)
• Responsible for the followup/closure of long pending and customer escalated cases
• Guiding and training the L2 resources wherever required
• Closure monitoring of critical alerts of customer firewalls and providing the solution for the alerts
• Tracking every problem and major change request for all customers
• Adherence to customer SLA and avoiding the breaching of tickets on SR/Incidents

• Performing the quarterly Vulnerability Scan on critical production servers and share to respective stakeholder for remediation
• Generating report and Optimizing the firewall policy performance by using Tufin Secure track tool
• Investigating on security related incidents like Vulnerability, Intruder attack, Virus or worm and take appropriate action to remediate
• Monitor and configuring the CISCO IPS signatures based on the vulnerability applicable to client DCs
• Implementing the Checkpoint Firewall policies and ASA ACL changes as per customer requirement’s
• Build, Monitor and troubleshooting S2S and Remote access VPN
• Troubleshoots all network related incidents, Handling P1 calls effectively, deep diving on troubleshooting and providing RCA if applicable

Projects:

• Creating and configuring the CISCO ACS users/rules as per customer requirements’
• Raising case, coordinate and troubleshoot the problem with respective security device support team
• O Projects&Achievement’s
• Checkpoint SPLAT R75.47 to GAIA 77.10 OS upgrade
• S2S tunnel movement from PIX to ASA firewall
• CISCO ACS 5.2 to 5.4 IOS upgrade, integrating AD authentication with ACS

• Administration of Checkpoint GAIA R77.Creating and Managing the Checkpoint Rules
• Monitoring of Smart Dashboard, Smart Event Viewer, etc
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft ISA Proxy Server
• Worked in End user level Support for CISCO VPN
• Administering & designing LANs, WANs internet/intranet, and voice networks
• Analyzing & developing key components using methodology prescribed techniques
• Creating and Managing VLAN’s in the Network at Level 2 Support

Projects

• Migration of Static route to BGP protocol
• IP migration from CLASS C network to Class A network
• Implementation and configuration of MPLS connectivity for the new branch offices
• Implementing core switch redundancy
• Installation of Additional Domain controller in Branch offices.