Ankit K. Email & Phone Number

United States

Rockville, Maryland

• Key Responsibilities
• Maintain and manage clients prominent network products, including hardwired and wireless networks, virtual private networks, firewalls, telephony, research networks, and more.
• Responsible for overall network and voice architecture.
• Install, configure, and maintain all network devices and services (e.g switches, routers, firewalls, VPN, Wi-Fi, LAN, WAN).
• Provide senior technical leadership across all IT infrastructure areas, including servers, storage, and cloud.
• Troubleshoot and act as a point of escalation for network related issues.

Centreville, Maryland

• Key Responsibilities
• Deploy, configure, manage, and implement Palo Alto, Fortinet, Dell SonicWALL, Cisco ASA and Meraki Firewalls, on high volume critical production environment.
• Manage and implement best practice firewall rules for Security Policy and Regulatory Compliance standards, work with team of Network Engineers to configure, deploy and install switches, routers, and wireless access.
• Conduct and perform vulnerability assessment and penetration test on the perimeter network, systems and applications based on SOX, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Compliance Standard.
• Secure and harden Windows and Unix servers in a high transaction production environment.
• Pro-actively protected the integrity, confidentiality and availability of Client data and assets with Firewalls, Single Sign-on, MFA, IPsec, VPN, DMZ and IDS/IPS for access control and security monitoring and analyses.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Key Responsibilities
• Take responsibility for the day to day operation of the team, providing overall guidance and supervision.
• Maintain and monitor required staffing levels and schedule to ensure that the team can meet the demand and respond in a timely manner to network and server anomalies and outages.
• Maintenance –managing routines, obsolescence, contracts, suppliers, service providers.
• Provisioning – meeting SLA on new provisions,
• Service Restoration - meeting SLA on services.

• Key Responsibilities
• Working in partnership with a team to design, monitor, maintain and support LAN/WAN infrastructures and operations including:
• Microsoft AD, Group Policy, Domain Controllers, Direct Access, ADFS, File and Print Servers, DFS, Certificate Authority, DHCP, DNS and RDS.
• Systems Administration
• Act as LAN administrator for file and print servers, email and messaging systems, business systems, VOIP and other LAN/WAN & Cloud hosted solutions.
• Troubleshooting & establishing baseline performance metrics by following existing procedures and creating procedures as needed

Master'S Degree, Computer Network Security

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance