Mohana Ramaswamy

· Project Objective: Provide Data and Network Security consultation for Cognizant Banking and Financial Services clients. Generate and provide Network and Security assessment reports, solutions, and design documents for projects. Identify capacity utilization bottlenecks and provide mitigation plans and analysis reports. Review Security posture of networks and provide security solutions for new services. Involve in Migration, audit, and assessment for service improvements.

· Job Description: Information Security Sr. Professional I, providing strong firewall security solutions for the current infrastructure, and end-to-end firewall support. Provide Level 2 on-call operations support for other information security technologies.

· Roles and Responsibilities:

o Providing Firewall support including both Operations and Engineering for Data Center Firewalls.

o Providing firewall, BlueCat DNS, Bluecoat Proxy, BigIP F5 VPN support for Security Operations Team.

o Upgrading the current Checkpoint firewall environment to enterprise standards.

o Firewall Migrations from Checkpoint Firewalls to Palo Alto Firewalls.

o On-call operations support providing Level 2 technical support for Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA Firewalls, BigIP F5 VPN support, BlueCat DNS and DHCP solutions.

o Vulnerability assessment and management.

o End-to-end Tufin administration.

o Server port provisioning, configuring firewall policies in Juniper Netscreen and SRX firewalls, incident and change management, vendor coordination.

o Management of Juniper Network and Security Manager (NSM).

o Basic configuration and troubleshooting on WAN Links and F5 Load Balancer.

· Project Objective: Provide Data and Network Security consultation for Cognizant Banking and Financial Services clients. Generate and provide Network and Security assessment reports, solutions, and design documents for projects. Identify capacity utilization bottlenecks and provide mitigation plans and analysis reports. Review Security posture of networks and provide security solutions for new services. Involve in Migration, audit, and assessment for service improvements.

Engagement#1: Firstdata Corporation(April 2014 - Sep 2019)

o Job Description: Level 2 Network Security Engineer providing strong firewall security solutions for the current infrastructure, and end-to-end firewall support. Provide Level 2 on-call operations support for other information security technologies.

o Roles and Responsibilities:

§ Complete Firewall support including Operations and Engineering for Data Center Firewalls.

§ Firewall, BlueCat DNS, Bluecoat Proxy, BigIP F5 VPN support for Security Operations Team.

§ Upgrade current Checkpoint firewall environment to enterprise standards.

§ On-call operations support providing Level 2 technical support for Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA Firewalls, BigIP F5 VPN support, BlueCat DNS, and DHCP solutions.

§ Vulnerability assessment and management.

§ End-to-end Tufin administration.

Engagement#2: Time Warner Cable Corporation(Dec 2010 - Jan 2014)

o Job Description: Level 2 Network Security Engineer

o Project Description: Network support tier 2 from offshore delivery. Monitor LAN/WAN network using network monitoring tools to achieve zero downtime. Implement all firewall requests through NSM tool of Juniper Netscreen and SRX Firewalls. Implement all switch port configuration requests and routing changes when change requests are logged.

o Roles and Responsibilities:

§ Server port provisioning, configuring firewall policies in Juniper Netscreen and SRX firewalls, incident and change management, vendor coordination.

§ Management of Juniper Net-Screen Manager (NSM).

Basic configuration and troubleshooting on WAN Links and F5 Load Balancer.

· Job Description: Level 2 Network Engineer

· Project Description: Providing network support at Accenture Bangalore location, including LAN/WAN and firewall technologies.

· Roles and Responsibilities:

o Design Data Networks for projects connecting to client networks over secured channels.

o External and internal Audit handling.

o Creating policies based on Project requirements in NetScreen, Cisco PIX, and ASA.

o Setup DMZ on Firewalls for Internet-facing servers.

o Hands-on experience with BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP routing protocols.

o Installations, Deployments, and Configurations of Cisco switches.

o Configuring IP helper and VLAN interfaces on core switches for DHCP.

o Knowledge in switching concepts like STP, VTP, and VLAN pruning.

o Experience in configuring VSYS, Zones, and inter-VSYS routing on NetScreen firewalls.

o Configuring HSRP, NSRP, and Auto failover on Firewalls and Routers.

o Working with sniffers like Ethereal for Network traffic troubleshooting.

o Configuring Site-to-Site and Client-to-Site IP