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.• Develop detailed documentation of all network systems and configurations.• Continuous development and improvement of networking processes and procedures.• Stay abreast of the latest networking technologies to ensure that clients network is always operating at the highest level.• Identified and planned for the development of shared IT infrastructure.• Closely worked with to improve network performance, system resiliency and customer experience.• Implement projects, systems, and issues of medium to high complexity surrounding network planning, configuration and optimization including keeping disaster recovery plans up to date, as required, and configuring the network to support recovery objectives to ensure business continuity.• Schedule and coordinate corrective and routine maintenance on critical network, Disaster Recovery and voice systems with appropriate vendors, customers, and support organizations.• Perform network risk assessments, implement tech solutions, and assist with internal or external network security audits, Disaster Recovery testing, and maintenance.

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 points. Assist with implementing Routing Protocols, Firewall rules and Security policies.•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. •Actively investigate latest security vulnerabilities, advisories, incidents, and network protection techniques. Developed and enforced Network and Systems Security Policy, Standard, Procedure and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.

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.•Capacity management – managing utilization of assets.•To develop the team and work with other departments to achieve common business goals.•To act as an escalation, point for customer problems and questions via telephone, e-mail and face to face•To be escalation contact for service issues, out of hours.•Ensuring the right environment is in place so that staff are effectively mentored, developed and trained.•Develop and own the processes and procedures used by the team, based on best practice for the industry.•Develop documentation related to the departments work processes which is up to date and accurately reflects the day to day running of the team.•Organize and prioritize workload.•Lead internal projects to improve service.•Communicate with suppliers and service providers on behalf of the company.•Conduct team reviews and be responsible for personal and career development of team members.

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•Performing Network Security analyses, LOB deployment & initial equipment configuration/installation (servers, firewalls, routers, switches, etc.)•Creating and updating reports & updating client information on internal ticketing systems

Master'S Degree, Computer Network Security

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