Sowmya Gadde

Senior Network Security Engineer @Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd

Kennesaw, GA, US

Enabled STP attack mitigation (BPDU Guard, Root Guard), using MD5 authentication for VTP, prevention where needed.• Upgraded the Cisco ASA firewalls from 6.2.3.1 to 6.2.3.9 for better performance and to avoid unwanted Health warnings thrown by the FMC Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSec, VPN, Security TACACS+ and RADIUS on different series of routers.• Served as the primary technical engineer for multiple migration projects, including network migrations from Cisco Catalyst 6500 to ASR9K, Fabric path to ACI, and ASA 5585 to Palo Alto • Responsible for configuring and implementing various solutions and technologies namely, DHCP, HSRP, CiscoWorks, SNMP, Quality of Service-QoS, VLANs, VTP, VPNs, PBRs, VOIP, OSPF, Load Balancing, GRE Tunnel, ether channel, etc.• Worked with Cisco Meraki centralized cloud managed architecture enables plug and play branch deployment and control across any number of distributed system• Migrated from Cisco 3650 switches to Aruba 3810 series switches.• Deployed and configured managed network equipment including: Cisco Meraki MX84 and Fortigate 81E firewalls, Cradle point AER1600 routers, Cisco Meraki MS120-24p switches, and Cisco Meraki MR33, MR70 and Juniper Mist access points.• Configuring Security Policies for Access control, inter zone connectivity, External Access on Palo Alto Firewall• Replace existing old network equipment (Cisco, HP, Brocade switches, & Fortigate firewalls) at 28 sites in scope with brand new high performance equipment.• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of Aruba, Net Screen, Palo Alto, and Firemon Firewalls• Configure, Support, update and install Checkpoint, Firemon systems. Provide monitoring of all Checkpoint firewalls and their logs/traffic• Firewall Policy Provisioning and troubleshooting firewall connectivity related issues using Fortinet Manager.