Gaurav Patil

About Gaurav Patil

Network Security Engineer with Over 10+ years of experience in designing, deploying, configuring, troubleshooting, optimizing and maintaining enterprise Security networks.Experience in:• Configuration and Support Checkpoint (R70, R71, R75, R77 & R80), Cisco Firewalls (ASA 5505, 5506-X, 5585) and Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PAN OS 6.0/6.1,PAN OS 7.0/7.1, PAN OS 8.0, 9.0 and PAN OS 10.0).• Cloud based perimeter control solution using Netskope SASE to perform private access, proxy and CASB functions.• Blacklisting and whitelisting of URLs and applications using CheckPoint, Palo Alto and Bluecoat Proxy servers.• Applying and managing IPS/IDS policies in FireEye(NX, MPS), CheckPoint and Palo Alto.• Provisioning endpoint security, IPS/IDS and malware protection using Symantec(ATP and DLP), Cylance and McAfee EPO.• Creating, managing, monitoring and responding to security alerts by SIEM tools, viz. Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm, ActiveGuard etc.• Configuring and maintaining TACACS and RADIUS authentication service on Cisco ISE and RSA.• Engineering and administering Cisco (Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki), Juniper switches (EX and QFX), F5 (LTM and load balancer) network gear.• Extensive understanding of Networking concepts, i.e. TCP/IP layers, VPN, encryption, wireless LAN, VLANs and VTP, routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP etc.

Experience

1. Sr Network Security Engineer at Hcl Tech

   Sunrise Group Inc.

   Apr 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Clients: HCL America and WWT• Manage and implement firewall rules on Next gen Palo Alto firewall running Panorama 10.0.4 on M-600 and PANOS 9.1.10 on PA-7080 appliances.• Plan, deploy and migrate Panorama log collector to newer M200 appliances.• Migrated Security equipment from datacenter to datacenter including labelling, removing equipment from old datacenter, racking, cabling and testing functionality for more than 15 firewalls and other Security equipment.• Replace old equipment with newer appliance by migrating configuration, moving connections, verifying traffic and testing applications.• Setup B2B VPN connection from Palo Alto firewalls to multiple vendors and troubleshoot connectivity problems over VPN connections.• Achieve network segmentation of business applications by architecting and deploying firewall rules and strengthening network security enterprise wide.• Support migration of enterprise applications from flat network to segmented network by identifying connections for application to function from network logs, implementing firewall rules and supporting migration activity.• Support migration of enterprise applications to Azure/AWS cloud by identifying firewall rules, converting policies from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto, implementing firewall rules and supporting migration activity to meet timelines.• Create python programs to automate analysis of logs based on existing rules and global rules for enterprise Apps. Create python script to automate rule deployments on Panorama.• Maintain change control records, risk exceptions and work efforts using Tufin orchestration Suite and tracker to analyze existing logs.• Support troubleshooting efforts on migration day to ensure a successful migration of enterprise Apps to segmented environment.• Implement rules, manage, and maintain over 16 Juniper SRX firewalls and Cisco ASA Firewalls.• Analyze traffic logs to identify firewall rules for application being segmented.

Education

• BDCE Sevagram

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  2010 — 2014

• Southern Methodist University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications Engineering

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Network Design
• Solarwinds
• Circuit Design
• Data Analysis
• Border Gateway Protocol (Bgp)
• C
• Microsoft Office
• F5 Bigip
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Windows
• Bluecoat Proxies
• Prtg
• Mininet
• Research
• Management
• Project Management
• Cisco Asa
• Is-Is
• English
• Python
• Network Analysis
• Wireshark
• Public Speaking
• Mcafee Epo
• Open Shortest Path First (Ospf)
• C Language
• Checkpoint Security
• Leadership
• Microsoft Word
• Teamwork
• Team Management
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Network Troubleshooting