Kenneth Okonkwo

Team Lead, Enterprise Network and Security @Parallex Bank

Lagos, NG

Day to Day administration of Switches, routers, Firewalls (FortiGate, Huawei, CISCO), F5 etc. •Ensure compliance with all approved policies, guidelines, baselines, and procedures.•Develop and instigate procedures for secure remote access, business continuity and disaster recovery.•Setup and Manage site-to-site and remote access VPN connections with third parties.•Manage the Wireless Infrastructure and FortiAPs and ensure 99.9% service availability on the wireless network.•Work with internal customers to develop requirements to meet their security objectives.•Manage third party service integrations and ensure that the zone is well protected.•Conduct security architecture reviews of planned cloud migration initiatives across the organization and produce high quality Threat models for cloud environments clearly articulating risks.•Interact with the required control functions (e.g, Information Security, Risk, Audit, Compliance) to obtain input when and if required regarding security standards.•Participate in any IT related process to verify the compliance for a design or an implementation to the infrastructure network and cyber security standards.•Responsible for network and system security design, configuration, maintenance and monitoring within the Bank.• Link integration supports a wide area network between branches and head office.•Provided day-to-day administration and support of OSPF tunnels between hub and spoke branches.

University of Lagos

Master in Information Technology

Nnamdi Azikiwe University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)