Sandip Maheta

• Mentored security L2/L3 new joiners, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill improvement.
• Collaborated with the Customer Engineering team to tackle any necessary changes or challenges within the current infrastructure. Assured that support was delivered effectively while upholding service level agreements and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Prevent network problems from escalating to critical levels by implementing proactive monitoring, swift troubleshooting, and efficient issue resolution strategies.
• Coordinate team initiatives, allocate resources efficiently, and ensure adequate support for the firewall operations team.
• Performed thorough fault resolution and triage through expert technical support, escalating complex issues to completion.
• Extensive knowledge in configuring and deploying Next Generation Firewalls including Palo Alto, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewalls.
• Scheduling and conduction training programs aimed at enhancing awareness of customer infrastructure, processes, and newly adopted technologies related to the existing infrastructure.
• Focusing on the cross-skilling program will help keep the team balanced during critical periods.
• Serve as the primary liaison with firewall vendors for product updates, support, and escalations, while collaborating with the customer and their engineering team.

-Proficiency in Cisco Switching & Routing, Cisco Security, Cisco Nexus, Checkpoint Security & VPN.
- Strong Knowledge on Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo Alto technologies.
- Good hands-on experience on Palo Panorama, Prisma, Palo firewalls, Global Protect.
- Configure, Manage and Monitor Palo Alto and checkpoint firewalls.
- Implement advanced Palo Alto Firewall features like URL filtering, User-ID, App-ID, Content-ID on both inbound and outbound traffic.
- Manage Multiple Palo Alto and checkpoint firewalls centrally through Palo Alto Panorama/MDS centralized Management Appliance.
➢ Upgraded Palo Alto, checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewalls.
➢ Worked with Panorama management tool to manage firewall and store the data of all global networks from central location.
➢ Troubleshoot traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures.
➢ Deployed Active/Standby modes of High Availability (HA) on Palo Alto and checkpoint firewalls.
➢ Enforce policy checks on north-south and east-west data center traffic.Provided escalated technical support in troubleshooting firewall and network issues.
➢ Knowledge on SPLUNK/Wireshark Packet Analyzer

-Good knowledge on Checkpoint VSX Platform, Maestro Environment.
-Worked in depth on issues related to Checkpoint / Fortinet / Palo Architecture.
-Troubleshooting high CPU, Memory, Installation failure Cases on Enforcement Modules.
-Implementing security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS) w.r.t Checkpoint/Fortinet/Palo
-Good knowledge on Checkpoint VSX Platform, Maestro Environment.
-Good hands-on experience on Palo Panorama, Prisma, Palo firewalls, Global Protect.
-Good experience on Fortinet firewalls, Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer.
-Good hands-on experience on Palo Panorama, Prisma, Palo firewalls, Global Protect.
-Enabled the User-ID feature while creating policies based on users and groups rather than individual IP addresses.
-Configured windows USER-ID agent to collect host information using Palo Alto Global Protect.
-Configured APP-ID feature in Palo Alto firewalls to reduce attack surface, regain visibility and control over traffic.
-Created custom URL-filtering profiles and attached them to Security policy rules that allow web access.
-Configured Global Protect gateway to provide VPN connections for Global Protect agents.
-Configured Log Forwarding to forward logs from the firewall to Panorama and then configured Panorama to send logs to the servers.

payroll :

- Netconnect Pvt.Ltd – September 2016 To January 2017

- Alchemy Techsol Pvt.Ltd – May 2015 To August 2016.

-Responsible for handling Pan India, Bharati Airtel Technical LAN, that includes multivendor platforms like Cisco( Routers : 2600,2800,3800,7200 ,ASR 1000 and 9000 Switches : 3560,3750,4500 & 6500 )
-Juniper ( Routers : J2500 series ,MX40 , MX80 Series . Firewalls : SRX 3400 and SRX 3600),
-checkpoint (Power-1 5070 and power-1 9070)
-Following ITIL process for the Change management & Incident management.
-Plan and implement network changes, troubleshooting, various day to day issues related to network.
-Configure and troubleshooting Static, OSPF & BGP routing protocols as well VLAN, STP, Tracking, Etherchannel, ACL and all.
-HA Maintain & Troubleshoot issues in Firewall as well Planning and Pushing Policy in Checkpoint & Juniper Firewall.
-T.Shoot and Tracking the Firewall policy by using Checkpoint Smart Dashboard & juniper.
-Implementation & troubleshooting of vlans, high availability solutions like HSRP,VRRP, Etherchannels, access control lists, NAT, PAT, routing solutions etc...
-Site-to-Site & Remote access VPN.
-Responsible for the troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues.

• Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.
• Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.
• Reduced downtime with proactive monitoring of network devices and rapid troubleshooting.
• Optimized routing protocols to improve data transfer speeds across the organization''s network infrastructure.

- IT Educational Institute management which offers many courses like Computer Hardware & Network, Software, Web Development & Project Training for the Final Year Students of Engineering, MCA & M.Sc – IT Students

- Taking Lectures & labs for N+, CCNA & Microsoft Track.

- Management of Technical & Marketing Staff.