Syed A Quadri

About Syed A Quadri

IT professional with 8+ years of experience in Networking Security and proven expert proficiency in designing, engineering, configuring, and maintaining of large enterprise firewalls.• Experienced in leveraging the advanced features of Palo Alto Networks firewalls, such as application control, user-based policies, intrusion prevention system (IPS), and SSL decryption, to provide comprehensive network security.• Worked on FortiGate series firewalls, designed to provide high-performance security for mid-sized to large enterprises.• Strong hands on experience in configuring, administering and troubleshooting of Cisco ASR, 7200, 3900, 3800, 2900, 2800, and 1800 series routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950 and 3500XL series switches.• Experience working with 7010/Nexus 9300, 7018, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.• Well Versed with SDN and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies like Cisco ACI.• Design expertise for the SD-WAN (Versa & Viptela), SD-LAN and WAN optimization technologies for efficient delivery of the application data across LAN and WAN.• In-depth knowledge on various AWS services including EC2, VPC (NAT, VPN), IAM, EC2 container service, Route S3.• Configured Azure Load Balancer to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple servers, ensuring high availability and reliability.• Configured secure DHCP settings within Infoblox, including IP lease time, client classification, and DHCP snooping, to mitigate the risk of rouge DHCP servers and unauthorized IP address assignments.• Worked on ISEC with advanced threat intelligence platforms, leveraging real-time data and analytics to proactively identify and mitigate emerging threats, enhancing the overall security posture.• Configuration on BIG IP Load balancers and monitored the Packet Flow in the load balancers.• Experienced in Cisco Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay & MPLS), Routing protocol configurations (EIGRP, GMVPN, GRE, OSPF, and BGP).

Experience

1. Senior Network Security Engineer

   Gigamon

   Oct 2021 — Present · Santa Clara, CA, US

   Engaged with AWS Security Hub and AWS GuardDuty for ongoing surveillance and identification of security risks and susceptibilities within AWS ecosystems.• Monitored Fortinet firewall and documented logging, reporting and traffic analysis, troubleshooted network connectivity problems, security policy conflicts.• Applied UTM features in FortiGate series to prevent data breaches and unauthorized access. • Integrating FortiGate firewalls with FortiAnayzer, a centralized logging and reporting tool, to collect and analyze firewall logs and generate reports.• Configured and managed Panorama in a distributed deployment, utilizing Log Collectors and Panorama M-Series (M-500, M-600, and Series).• Experience on working in panorama, Palo Alto user interface version 8.0.2 and VM-300 series firewalls.• Configured Layer 3 protocols (OSPF and BGP) in Nexus and series, Implemented security features VRD and VACL on Nexus switches to isolate and protect sensitive data.•Worked on Juniper routers, including the MX series (Juniper MX240, Juniper MX480, Juniper MX960) and Juniper SRX series (Juniper SRX 300, Juniper SRX550).•Worked in for the NextGen Datacenter Cloud Architecture, using Cisco ACI and Nexus 9K.• Configured and tested the ACI, distribute-list, prefix-list and route-map for on demand routing and use of sub-optimal timers and link aggregation for failover providers.• Involved in optimizing network performance by strategically directing traffic over the suitable links, culminating in elevated application performance and user satisfaction.• Implemented advanced encryption techniques within ISEC to enhance data security during both transmission and storage.• Implemented and managed Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) solutions to enhance network security and reliability.• Worked on OSI network Protocol/layer; Ethernet, OSPF, EIGRP, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, IP, DNS, DHCP and SNMP.