Venkatramanan Raghavan
Infrastructure Engineer
Chennai
Summary
8+ Experienced Security Engineer III with 7 years of advanced security implementation and maintenance, incident response planning, and vulnerability testing. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to design secure network architectures and providing technical guidance to junior engineers.
Experienced with designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure systems. Utilizes advanced troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical issues and ensure system reliability. Knowledge of network management and team leadership to drive successful project completion.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Infrastructure Engineer
Bank of America
11.2023 - Current
- Lifecycle Management
- Migration of Firewall from Checkpoint to Fortinet
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to re-resign the network as per the requirement of the application team
- Preparing NRF’s for migration projects
- Coordinated with vendors for equipment procurement, installation, maintenance contracts, ensuring optimal service levels at competitive pricing points.
- Developed technical documentation for infrastructure design, implementation, and troubleshooting procedures.
- Reduced downtime by proactively identifying and addressing potential issues in the IT infrastructure.
- Supported business objectives by seeking out new customers and networking at key events.
- Led the planning and execution of a successful migration from on-premise infrastructure towards a hybrid-cloud environment, minimizing disruptions and maximizing benefits.
- Provided Tier-3 support to resolve complex issues for clients and maintain high customer satisfaction levels.
- Migrated legacy systems to modern platforms for increased efficiency and reduced maintenance costs.
Verizon Data service India Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 10.2023
- Company Overview: (Contract / FTE)
- Implemented and maintained advanced security measures to protect company systems and data
- Developed and executed incident response plans to mitigate and resolve security breaches
- Conducted regular security assessments and vulnerability testing to identify and address potential risks
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement secure network architectures
- Provided technical guidance and support to junior security engineers and IT teams
- (Contract / FTE)
Interlace India Pvt LTD
06.2016 - 05.2021
- Company Overview: Chennai
- Assisted senior engineers in designing and developing engineering solutions
- Performed technical calculations and analysis to support project goals
- Contributed to the creation and modification of engineering drawings and specifications
- Conducted quality control inspections to ensure compliance with project requirements
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve engineering issues
- Chennai
- Rolls and Responsibilities
- Change management
- Incident management
- Vendor management
- Lifecycle project
- Develop requirements for firewall rule implementation including source and destination IPs, Ports, Transport Protocol
- Enterprise network security solutions
- Enterprise network security design standards
- Identifying root cause of incidents and making appropriate recommendation to avoid future failure
- Strictly following Move to Production process including checking that tools and documentation are up to date
- Lead and participate in group projects with global regional team members
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems in a systematic and logical manner, and maintain good communications with all relevant parties throughout troubleshooting process
Education
B. Tech -
Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology
Skills
Network Management
undefinedCertification
Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification, SCOR-350-701, 2021-2023
Skill Summary
- Hands on experience in Security, Switching, Routing networks involving multiple vendors.
- Implementing and integrating multiple products and technologies.
- Managing and troubleshooting of small, medium, and enterprise networks.
- Proactive and Reactive measures to keep the network continuity and uptime.
- Providing escalation support for all customers – Remote, Offsite and Onsite.
- Technologies - LAN technologies, WAN technologies, Network security, multiple protocols, VPN.
- User Training- Switching, Network Architecture, Security.
Device Knowledge - Security
- Fortinet
- Versa
- Checkpoint
- Cisco ASA
- Palo Alto
- Load Balancer
- F5
- SD-WAN
- Prisma
Technologies Known
- VLAN
- VPN
- ACL
- Port Security
- MRP
- DHCP
- VRRP
- VTP
- SVI
- STP
- RIP
- EIGRP
- OSPF
- BGP
- VRF
- MPLS
- GPON
- IPSEC/SSL VPN
- NAT
- DNS
- Windows deployment server
- Windows update server
- Security Profiles (Antivirus, Web filtering, Application control, Intrusion prevention/Detection System, and Data leak prevention)
Roles And Responsibilities
- Change management
- Incident management
- Vendor management
- Lifecycle project
- Develop requirements for firewall rule implementation including source and destination IPs, Ports, Transport Protocol
- Enterprise network security solutions
- Enterprise network security design standards
- Identifying root cause of incidents and making appropriate recommendation to avoid future failure
- Strictly following Move to Production process including checking that tools and documentation are up to date
- Lead and participate in group projects with global regional team members
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems in a systematic and logical manner, and maintain good communications with all relevant parties throughout troubleshooting process
Timeline
Infrastructure Engineer
Bank of America
11.2023 - Current
Verizon Data service India Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 10.2023
Interlace India Pvt LTD
06.2016 - 05.2021
B. Tech -
Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology
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