Praveen A S
Bangalore
Summary
Insightful Senior Consultant with 13+ years of experience in the IT Infrastructure consulting industry. Optimistic, organized and flexible. Excellent persuasion and leadership skills. Proficient in generating logical solutions to solve intricate problems.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant - Network & Security
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
Bangalore
05.2020 - Current
- Handling Team of 5 and Managing Operations
- Area: Solution Design, Development, Delivery and Management and operation Handling Project End to End AWS / Azure / GCP / Oracle
- On-Boarding Activity: Ability to design and manage cloud-based infrastructure to deliver required performance, security and availability requirements.
- Expertise in Network Architecture diagram of cloud environment in AWS/AZURE & On-prem Infrastructure.
- Hands on experience with Amazon-EC2, VPC, NACL, SG, Route53, VPN, Direct Connect, ELB, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, WAF, VPC Flow logs.
- Hands on experience on Azure Virtual Network, Virtual Network peering, Express route, Network watcher, Application Gateway, Traffic manager, DNS, Application Gateway, VMSS scales set.
- Comprehensive knowledge on Network Design Principles.
- Configuring and troubleshooting IPSEC site-to-site VPNs, Fortinet Firewall, PfSense, Azure firewall, IPAM.
- Understanding and applied knowledge of TCP/IP Protocols, Layer 2 Security and Routing technology.
- Excellent written and oral communication ability, including formal presentation skills to customers, partners and support teams.
- Proficient with analyzing data traces from protocol analyzers such as Wireshark.
- Opening (Bridge) call with clients, BU and managements to resolve issue ASAP. Based on daily tickets analysis, incidents, joining client calls for troubleshooting and resolving live environment issues with ITIL Process.
- Ticketing Tool: JIRA & Service Now
- Technical / User Support - This includes troubleshooting network problems using packet analyzers like Solar Winds, TCP Dump Wireshark on cloud, AWS, and Azure etc.
Assistant Manager - IT
Shriram Properties Limited
Bangalore
08.2003 - 12.2011
- Provided Leadership for New Data Center (DC) setup for New Corporate Office. Fixing of DC Server Racks with SMART Technology.
- Network Fluke tests which saved time for server connectivity.
- Fiber switching for seamless connectivity
- Providing security on Internet & Application Level, Mail and Intrusion preventive techniques and scanning for SMTP Server.
- IP-level and MAC based policies to restrict devices connected to network.
- Floor-wise VLAN's has been configured to access seamless Wi-Fi network.
- Wi-Fi Guest Management - Providing WiFi access to the clientr.
- Audio & Video Automation for Board Room Conferencing system.
- Expertise on Fortinet Firewall: Expertise on Firewall by using Fortigate 500E, 500D, 300C, 110C Controllers.
- Xorcom Asterisk IP Based Smart Call Routing [IP-PBX]: Maintaining IP-PBX, GSM Gateway, Open Box ATA for Analog Phones.
- VMware Zimbra Mail Server: Managing and Troubleshooting VMware Zimbra Mail Server with the company Group Polices
- Microsoft Office365 Exchange Server: Managing, Configuring Users through Admin Console with permissions.
- G-Suite (Google Apps for Work) - Managing, Configuring Users through Admin Console with permissions, adding license, Adding to Groups
- Virtualization - Configuring, Managing VMware hosts, VCenter with using VMware Esxi 5.0 Server
- Mobile Device Management (MDM) -As per the requirement of Organization.
- MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) - Acquired Knowledge on MPLS.
System Administrator
RCS Technologies
Bangalore
09.2010 - 08.2011
- Deputed to Client 'Aricent Group' supporting 300+ users for Desktop and laptop troubleshooting.
- Configured and maintained system hardware, software and network components.
- Monitored system performance to ensure optimal operations and identified potential issues.
- Troubleshot application errors and provided technical support to end-users.
- Performed regular backups of critical data and documents.
- Analyzed system logs to identify suspicious activities or anomalies.
- Provided guidance on best practices related to system administration procedures.
- Resolved complex technical problems within established service level agreements.
- Configuring Group Policies (GPO) as per policy management, Password policy, Group policy, configuration and managing User Local and Roaming Profile.
- Set up user accounts, permissions and passwords and defined network policies and procedures.
- Analyze all aspects of the systems and develop/implement plans to improve items such as utilization, capacity, and performance.
- Evaluated vendors' products against industry standards to make purchasing decisions.
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
JNTU Anantapur University - Chittoor
06-2010
BCOM - Computer Applications
Sri SBGR Degree College - PAKALA
03.2006
Intermediate - Radio And Television Broadcasting Technology
Intermediate Board - Govt College, Pakala
03.2003
SSLC -
Secondary Education Board - Vignana Deepthi E.M High School
03.2001
Skills
- Network Security
- Networking
- Cloud Management
- Cloud architectures and services
Certification
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring
- Microsoft Certified Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- NSE2 - Fortinet Network Security Associate
- Information Security Risk Professional
Personal Information
Title: Senior Consultant - Network & Security
Languages
- English, Advanced
- Telugu, Advanced
- Tamil, Advanced
- Kannada, Upper intermediate
- Hindi, Upper intermediate
Hobbies and Interests
Car Driving for Long Vacation Drives
Timeline
Senior Consultant - Network & Security
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
05.2020 - Current
System Administrator
RCS Technologies
09.2010 - 08.2011
Assistant Manager - IT
Shriram Properties Limited
08.2003 - 12.2011
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
JNTU Anantapur University - Chittoor
BCOM - Computer Applications
Sri SBGR Degree College - PAKALA
Intermediate - Radio And Television Broadcasting Technology
Intermediate Board - Govt College, Pakala
SSLC -
Secondary Education Board - Vignana Deepthi E.M High School
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