Syed Zonara

Sr Network Engineer System Engineer @Fiserv

Experienced in handling and installing Palo Alto Firewalls and Integrated Palo Alto next-gen firewalls with overlay VMware NSX SDN network. Designed & Integrated cloud networks using VMware NSX, VMware distributed firewall, chassis, Cisco Nexus 9Ks, and Brocade VDX platforms. Implemented Contracts, Multi-tenants between Endpoint groups using SDWAN in ACI. Experience in integrating identity federation with Cloud (SaaS) SAML based applications using F5 APM. Managed DHCP, DNS and IP address thru Infoblox, and Admin for Internet sites access thru Zscaler. Experience in Designs and implements Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto firewalls Understanding of IPSEC, Understanding and troubleshooting of VPN (Site to Site, Remote SSL). Zscaler Cloud proxy basics (Authentication, Authentication bypass, Zscaler root certificate) Created dynamic routing/load balancing capability enabling large application scaling, used ingress rules and Ingress Controllers- Traffic and Nginx. Worked with Cisco, Palo Alto, ASA, Juniper SRX, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Zscaler and other vendors to provide a stable, high-speed, secure network Implemented network integration with ACI AND NSX for VMWare and UCS platforms Experience with network segmentation using illumio and Palo Alto firewalls for traffic filtering and applying policies on illumino central manager. Worked on Zero Trust Expert (NSG’s, MS ATF, Guardicore, Illumio, Palo Alto, Cisco, Pulse Secure, VMware NSX) for On-Premise and Cloud digital Assets. Configuring network interfaces, static routes, and NAT rules in panorama and thereafter pushing to individual Palo Alto devices. Experience in using the GCP cloud panorama- 10.0.5 version. Deployed Paloalto-500 series device to the both Lab and production environment, managed them via Panorama.