Mohammad Danish Malik

About Mohammad Danish Malik

Manage and optimize cloud-based network infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, including Virtual Networks (VNets), Network Security Groups (NSGs), Application Gateways (APGW), Azure Firewalls, and Load Balancers. • Design and implement secure network architectures in Azure using both GUI (Azure Portal) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform. • Configure and maintain Azure Firewall policies, Application Gateway rules, and traffic routing • Perform network troubleshooting and performance tuning across Azure and on-prem infrastructure. • Support legacy network infrastructure including Cisco Nexus 9K switches, FortiGate and Check Point firewalls, and F5 load balancers during transition to cloud. • Monitor and audit Azure networking components using Azure Monitor Maintain and update Terraform code repositories. • Participate in network security reviews, change management processes, and incident response efforts. • Remediation for vulnerabilities found during the health check scan of network devices. • Deploy and manage VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewalls, Load Balancers, and Application Gateways for secure cloud infrastructure. • Use Azure Portal and Azure CLI for daily operations, provisioning, and troubleshooting. • Monitor and troubleshoot traffic flows using Network Watcher, Connection Monitor, and Azure Monitor. • Write, update, and deploy reusable Terraform (.tf) modules to manage Azure networking resources as code. • Configure and maintain Azure Firewall policies, Application Gateway rules, and traffic routing. • NX-OS and Catalyst switch reboot, Upgrade and License upgrade. • Remediation for vulnerabilities found during the health check scan of network devices. • Involved in the troubleshooting aspects of complex network infrastructure using the routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, STP etc. • Network Security: Firewall experience on Checkpoint and FortiGate. • Knowledge of F5 LTM load balancers. • Monitoring tools used – Science logic, SolarWinds, Dynatrace.

Experience

1. Azure Network & Security Engineer

   Kyndryl

   Mar 2025 — Present

Education

• University of Kashmir

  Bachelors in Engineering - B.E, Electronics and Communication Engineering

  2012 — 2017