Arun Chidambaram

About Candidate

To explore and improve my technical skills which can be useful for me to keep updated with current technology and contribute maximum to the organization of which I am a part of. 

Education

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MSc Internet and Mobile Communication 2007-2009
University of York, UK.
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Bachelor of Computer Application 2003-2006
KLE College, Bangalore University, India

Work & Experience

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Track Lead/Lead Security Engineer, Oct 17 - Current
UFT Ltd (Wipro), Bangalore

UFT Pvt Ltd recruited to work for Wipro on Corning Project at Wipro site. ü Handling a team of 20 responsible in ensuring and supporting day-to-day functioning of security operations while adhering to best practises. ü Implement, troubleshoot, and upgrade of Panorama and Palo Alto Firewalls. ü Responsible and carried out N-1/Firmware upgrade and patch management on ASA, ACS, IPS, WSA and Symantec VIP. ü Identify, evaluate risk register/landmine devices and action plan to mitigate risk. ü Planning and carrying out remedial works in the Data Centre on various Security devices. ü Carried out controls effective testing on the perimeter devices and remediated/standardize the Configs across. ü Identified opportunities to automate reoccurring tasks and reduced manual work by 50 hrs/week. ü Identified and categorise operational work versus potential new projects [SOW or WBH] as per the contract. ü Responsible in driving through regular client connect meetings, addressing escalations and working thru improvement areas. ü Perform trend analysis, identify top reoccurring issues and reduce auto-generated or false positive alerts. ü Work on MI and escalations. Reviewing RCA, taking corrective and preventive actions. ü Working with Cyber Security team in reviewing and approving critical changes. ü Implementing Palo Alto mine meld that aggregates threat intelligence feeds.

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Network Security Engineer Technical Lead, Jan 17 - May 17
Selling Simplified, Pune

Selling Simplified provides Marketing as a Service (MaaS) and into lead generation. I was responsible in providing technical leadership to the Enterprise and enable smooth functioning of Network Security Infrastructure.

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Network Security Engineer Oct 15 - Jan 17
Atos India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

Atos is an IT service company with client base of blue-chip Companies spread across the Globe. We were responsible in implementing and maintaining Network Security Infrastructure for client Walt Disney. ü Implemented Zone Based Firewall and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewall. ü Created and implemented object creation, Security Policy changes, security profile creation, user-id mapping, PAN OS upgrades, CLI troubleshooting on standalone Palo Alto devices ü Created and implemented Security Policy Changes, Time Based ACL, NAT and IPSEC S2S VPN on Checkpoint firewalls. ü Troubleshooting issues using tools like Smartview Monitor, Smartview Tracker and Smartview Log. ü Reviewed SAM [Suspicious Activity Monitor] rule DB on Smartview Monitor and created security policy rules for those rules that required to be blocked permanently. ü Configure, troubleshoot and resolve issues with respect to advanced features such as Firewall Administration, Authentication (LDAP), SSL forward and inbound decryption, URL Filtering on Palo Alto.

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Network Engineer July 11 - March 15
CB Richard Ellis Ltd, London

CBRE is number one global commercial real estate and a Fortune 500 Company having offices around US, EMEA, APAC & Canada. We were responsible in building, implementing and maintaining Network Infrastructure of offices based in CBRE EMEA region. ü Supporting Network Infrastructure for over 120+ office with 12000+ users base across EMEA. ü Configuring Security Policy, Network Address Translation, LDAP integration on Checkpoint Firewall. ü Installing/Configuring of various Hardware’s, Configuring Switches, ACL, NAT, IPSEC Tunnel, DHCP and TACACS. ü Proactive monitoring of the Network Devices using Solarwinds and fixing or escalating issues with the provider/L3 for any potential issues. ü Racked and Stacked Cisco 3750x series switches.

Skills

Cissp (in Progress) ü Accredited Configuration Engineer [ACE-Palo Alto] ü Qualys Certified Specialist. ü Certified Ethical Hacker v9. ü Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA R&S & CCNA Security). ü Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP [070-297]).

Awards

Award/Reward from Wipro Account Delivery Head for being proactive and working towards continual improvement. Employee of the Quarter 2014 from CBRE. 2ndrd prize from Lloyds Banking Group for having provided outstanding customer service. Avid Traveller and Amateur Water Surfer.

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