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ROBY K.S
N E TWORK - SECUR ITY /SE CUR ITY - ENG INE ER ING ARCH ITE C T

CONTACT CAREER OBJECTIVE

EMAIL: Adaptable professional with 14 years of experience and a
[email protected] proven knowledge of Security Engineering & Architecture,
Service Delivery, Client Servicing, Security Framework,
PHONE:
Infrastructure Management. Resourceful in designing and
(948) 365-1313
implementation of security solutions for on premise data
ADDRESS: centers, branch offices, and public and hybrid cloud
Vars Parkwood Apartments deployments. As a network security Architect, I have worked
Bangalore, karnataka, 560035 on designing and deployment of data center security
solution considering all requirements of customer, following
standard security practices involving stakeholders with the
EDUCATION accountability of informing them on future scenarios,
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT maintaining key relations with clients by acquiring feedback
GPA: 59.4 on critical issues and taking suitable actions to ensure end to
Thrissur, Kerala end positive feedback. Worked for achieving customer &
network team and proposed and deployed solution as per
Bachelor of Technology Electronics & business requirement in Agile standard. The major
Communication (Jun 2007) responsibilities include analyses of existing environment,
proposing new datacenter design document, High & low
SNM HIGHER SECONDARY
level design, WBS, build plan, deployment of the new
SCHOOL
solution, build documents, hardening the security devices as
GPA: 85.00
per the security technical standards, migration approach
Cochin, Kerala
plan, knowledge transfer to BAU team & handover.
High School Diploma (Mar 2003) Additional skills: Cisco Routing and Switching, Linux

ST.ANNE'S HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

GPA: 94.00
Thrissur, Kerala Security Engineering Senior Engineer
Telstra Dec-2021 – Present
SSLC (Mar 2001)
Design and implement the solutions which are re-usable,
ADDITIONAL SKILLS scalable, reliable, manageable and operable and align with
the Telstra technology strategic directions.
Network Security
Design, build, installation, integration and maintenance of
Palo Alto
multiple complex network technologies, platforms,
Zscaler
applications, services, products and/or systems.
Fortigate
Work with Security team on security strategy, standards and
Loadbalancer
frameworks to ensure security controls and hygiene are built
into network engineering and technology designs and
CERTIFICATIONS processes.
PCNSE-Palo Alto 7 Certified 2017
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Currently working on: Data center migrations, Lifecycle
Service Management management of Firewalls, PCI Audits, Supporting Different
Zscaler Certified Cloud teams during the Migrating applications to Cloud, Zero trust
Administrator - Internet Access deployment
(ZCCA-IA)
CCIE Routing and Switching Network Security Architect
(Written) 2012 - lab failed Alstom India, Bangalore, Karnataka / Apr 2019 – Apr-2022
• • Securing the All Lab/shop-floor Devices by migrating
behind the Firewalls to ensure security • Firewall
architecture preparation for new Site Firewalls. •
Bandwidth control rule optimization for applications on
Cloud Firewall( Zscaler). • Defined standard Security rule
set which can be commonly used across multiple
lab/shopfloor sites. • Inter/infra resiliency between Data
centers • Remote connectivity between multiple
partners are provided by different solutions like IPSEC
VPN, pulse secure VPN, Citrix, Loadbalancer and Azure
proxy. • Internet connectivity for All users are supported
with Fortigate and Zscaler Solutions • Good experience
in Zscaler client connector solutions. • Network security
points are tracked and mitigated. • Optimization and
cleanup for FWs using Fortimanager and Skybox for
performance and security • Regular review and
optimization Zscaler security risk points.

Technology Advisor
Accenture Solutions, Bangalore, Karnataka / Nov 2015 - Mar
2019
• • Team lead for Network security operational • PCNSE 7
Certified in Palo Alto • Appointed as Technology Advisor
for Palo Alto in Accenture (This is a position for
technology experts in Accenture, there are only 69
Technology Advisor across Accenture India) • During the
Skill Interviews, rated as P4-expert in Palo Alto Skill. •
Implemented the Cloud Palo Alto solution in Cloud data
center • Managing Data center firewalls and Panorama •
Managing 90 location firewall having High availability
setup • Experience in Optimizing tools like Algosec and
Palo Alto Migration Tools as a performance
improvement in Firewalls • Handling escalated issues
and Priority 1 & 2 issues • Deployment of new Palo Alto
firewalls and replacing RMA firewalls and Panorama •
Configured Log collector mode in Panorama • Done
multiple automation in Palo Alto Related Area
coordinating with multiple tools like Solarwinds: For Ex:
HA Alerts automation Backup scheduling in Palo Alto
and Alert for Success and failures. • Migration from
check point to Palo Alto • High availability configuration
in Palo Alto • Experience in latest 8.0.x version Palo alto
 and panorama • Implementation and troubleshooting of
wildfire • Implemented Threat and url profiles in Palo
Alto

Technical lead
Wipro Technologies pvt ltd, Hyderabad, Telangana / Jul 2014
- Nov 2015
• • Migration of other vendor firewalls like cisco ASA to
Palo Alto. • Transition control of one company to other
(network security) • Web sense to Palo Alto migration •
Threat Analysis and prevention suggestion •
Wildfire(zero day threat) prevention analysis • Setting up
new firewalls. • Cluster (High availability ) setup
implementation on firewalls • Setting up Palo Alto
VMware firewalls • Approvals for change management in
firewall • Troubleshooting Escalated issues related to
firewall. • Panorama administrator who manages 300
Palo Alto firewalls. • Good knowledge in handling Pa-
5050, 40xx,30xx and VM series devices. • Panorama VM
to M-100 migration • Creating KB articles as knowledge
sharing. • Managing 25-member team from offshore. •
Handles the responsibility of hiring new members to
offshore and onsite teams.

Senior Network Engineer

CSS Corp Pvt.Ltd , Chennai, Tamil Nadu / Jun 2012 - Jul 2014
• • Managing the installation, configuration &
maintenance of Palo Alto Networks • Diagnosing and
troubleshooting the issues related to Palo Alto Network
firewalls • Replicating the scenarios in lab as per the
client's topology and configuration by setting up the •
Firewall and Secure Access Policies similar to production
environment. • Collecting the logs required for analysing
the issue if the feature is not working as designed. •
Conducting thorough study of Tech-support file, Traffic
captures, Debug logs, client and • Server side logs, using
various network analysers like wire-shark to find the
root cause • Analysis (RCA) of problems. • Updating
cases according to the SLA and Client Priority. • Timely
escalation of cases and making sure all the Clients are
100% satisfied on the support. • Providing on Technical
and Product Specific training for the new engineers who
joins the Project. • Creating and editing the Knowledge
base articles related to Palo Alto Networks. Worked on
Brocade Routers( Vyatta)

Network Administrator
Inet Infotech, Cochin, Kerala / Jun 2010 - Mar 2012
• • Installation and Maintaining Local Area Network in the
office. • Ip address management and subnetting over
 network • Strong experience in 12.15 IOS • Strong
experience in routing protocols rip,ospf,eigrp and bgp •
Experience in implementing wan technologies. •
Troubleshooting vlan and layer 2 issues • Implemented
technologies for redundancy and load balancing over
network • Experience in managing DHCP server •
Managing user profiles with proper assignment of rights
on resources. • Taking the back-up (such as Daily,
Weekly and Monthly of the entire client PCs. • Provided
technical support to the entire organization on software
and hardware's. • Updating Operating System, Antivirus,
Service and Packs. • Installation and up-gradation of
hardware and software.

System Administrator
Syntrio Technologies Pvt Ltd, Trivandrum, Kerala / May 2008
- May 2010
• • Administered, secured and supported Linux servers •
Worked as Layer3 and Layer 2 Engineer • Advanced
Troubleshooting and technical support abilities with
migrations, network connectivity, • Security and
database applications. • Hardware firewall management
and handling website abuse issues • Tweaking and
performance tuning of Webservers • Kernel up-
gradation and customization • Advanced nagios
management and configuration customization. •
Worked on Ticket based helpdesk system • Great
knowledge in webhosting control panels like
Cpanel,pleask,helm,dotnetpanel • Worked as layer2
support for Widows webhosting servers • Worked with
Mail servers exim and Smarter mail • Performed
Account, email, server migrations