Ankit Gupta Email & Phone Number

Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Security Consultant • Lead security projects from design, implementation to an operational phase.• On-site management and hands-on installation, debugging, and optimization of various vendor products in conjunction with the customer, employees and solution.• Interface with the different Teams to gather information and provide appropriate solutions to the customers• Gather deployment data that aids in support and troubleshooting of any issues or questions that may arise• Develop methods of procedure (MOPs) documents for migrations, upgrades, and updates.• Align standards, frameworks and security with overall business and technology strategy.• Create and implement comprehensive test plans• Work cooperatively with the customer to successfully deploy the solution• Operate and maintain: Provide support, administration and maintenance necessary to ensure effective and efficient IT system performance and security• Ability to handle several tasks, organize, document, make decisions, and work efficiently and effectively under deadlines.• Create general knowledge transfer documents and lead client sessions• Escalate where required to resolve issues. Involve management where required to assign required resources. Provide feedback and status to the customer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Involve in designing of new DDI architecture and develop migration plans.• Implementation, integration & migration planning from other IPAM/DNS/DHCP platforms to Infoblox DDI.• Perform pre-migration testing and prepare validation process document for data being migrated to Infoblox.• Implementing features such as HA, GMC, DNSSEC and Any cast services. Configuring dynamic DNS, DNS views, zone transfers using TSIG, GSS-TSIG for DDNS and failover DHCP associations.• Configure DHCP filters, Option templates & fine tune DHCP configuration to achieve optimal performance & security.• Configuring Network Insight (probe/consolidator) for discovery of devices and vDiscovery for discovering VM’s.• Optimizing DNS platform security by enforcing named ACL's, rate limiting, DNS cache management and other DNS security options.• Implementation, configuration of DNS Firewall (RPZ’s), ADP (Advanced DNS protection) and Threat Analytics features.• Implementing and configuring reporting server for scheduled reports, dashboard & alerts.• A10 deployments include migration of ADC from other vendors to that of A10 ADC.• Implementing SSL insight to have a better visibility to the encrypted network traffic, in abidance to compliance.• Performing ACOS upgrade, configuring AAM in order to protect application servers from unauthorized access.• Deploying WAF solution to mitigate web based attacks and to provide the ability to inspect web traffic at a more granular level.• Preparing post-implementation document & conduct knowledge transfer sessions to end

Trivandrum

• Assist our Global customers with Configuration, Maintenance and diagnostics of Infoblox Grid based servers• Guide the customers through the Best practices according to their Network environment on Infoblox Grid based servers for best performance• Work with the Engineering and Development team to figure out and fix code related issues through intensive lab based testing by simulating customers’ environment. This would need to setup servers on different platform like Microsoft and Linux• Troubleshooting complex customer environments and provide root cause analysis as well as workarounds; if needed communicate with Engineering team on potentially encountered defect and follow through with them assuring customer satisfaction.• Exposure in supporting Infoblox DNS, DHCP and IPAM setup• Worked on project deployment, integration (in between Infoblox and Active Directory Services) & migration activities. • Worked with Infoblox physical and virtual appliance, Grid Master and Grid Master candidate, HA configuration, DNS, DHCP, IPAM and NTP configuration, setting up SNMP traps, VRRP, VIP, Role transfer, Licensing, backup and restore process, NIOS version upgrade etc.• Identify/determine common troubleshooting use cases and produce related knowledge base articles for Customer/Partner/ Reseller self-service.• Responsible for providing on time resolution to customer ticket.• Promoted as a Mentor and a Tier 2 engineer.

Chennai Area, India