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Washington, Dc, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Partner with customers to design and build scalable cloud architectures; act as a trusted customer advocate and technical advisor.• Collaborate with CIO, CTO, and CISO to develop business strategy, key performance indicators, risks, and risk mitigation strategies. Work directly with C-suite to develop policy for cloud adoption following best practices.• Work with CISO and cybersecurity teams to establish baselines for AWS security services, application and cloud log collection, monitoring and notification, and incident response runbooks• Guide developer teams through Well Architected Reviews offering recommendations for building secure, reliable, performant, and cost-optimized workloads in AWS• Promote AWS service best practices through blogs, speaking engagements, and whiteboarding sessions• Provided mentorship to internal employees and external individuals looking to advance their careers in technology.

Oakton, Virginia, Us

• Provide expert level technical leadership to a team of 15 senior network engineers • Build a centralized logging appliance for log collection and analysis• Build an Ansible environment to automate network operations• Lead a team of Ansible engineers to automate daily tasks using Ansible• Write code in Python and Jinja2 to automate repetitive tasks, perform Linux management operations for regulatory compliance• Write and deploy Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management• Generate reports for Configuration Management/Quality Assurance (CM-QA)• Develop custom software solutions in Python to create fully automated solutions• Design and configure a highly available, fault tolerant MPLS/BGP L2VPN and L3VPN cloud using industry leading technology• Connect on-premises network to the AWS cloud using Direct Connect• Manage AWS cloud solutions with Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform) or Ansible, Python• Design and build highly scalable AWS cloud solutions• Ensure AWS security best practices are followed• Perform customer and upper management briefings on architectural decisions

Oakton, Virginia, Us

•Design, configure, and maintain a high throughput, highly available, ultra-low latency core devices in a service provider network•Design, install, and manage Palo Alto aggregate services firewalls in a core network•Develop, test and implement next generation IPsec encryption and authentication technology for the highest security of data in transit •Administer Linux systems including the initial configuration, ongoing operations and maintenance, and automation of tasks via cron jobs•Perform advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution for complex network problems•Create network designs using Microsoft Visio for engineer review boards and customer briefings

•Designed and implemented a dual DMVPN environment with stub routing technology using OSPF, EIGRP, and NHRP•Designed and implemented a dual WAN network using MPLS as primary transport •Tested and implemented Next Generation IPsec encryption and authentication technology to enhance end-to-end security•Performed advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution of the most complex network problems•Evaluated and monitored health and performance of the network using Solarwinds •Continually researched and tested vendors’ hardware and technology including Cisco (routers, switches, and ASAs), Juniper, McAfee, Forcepoint, FireEye, and Palo Alto•Tested and configured a multicast routing environment for one-to-many traffic using the industry standard Bootstrap Router (BSR) and IGMPv3 protocols•Developed a BGP policy for customer edge to provider edge (PE-to-CE) route distribution and performed BGP tuning to enhance scalability

Reston, Virginia, Us

•Provide expert level support on high priority projects with short deadlines•Work extensively with network concepts, best practices, and technologies including, but not limited to AAA, SSH, IPsec tunnels, DMVPN, NHRP, RADIUS, TACACS, stateful firewalls, access control lists, configuring and troubleshooting advanced routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, BGP, RIP) and static routes, traffic engineering, and Policy Based Routing (PBR).•Design and implement network virtualization including, but not limited to, VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisors and Amazon Web Services, Brocade Vyatta 5400 routers, and Juniper vSRX firewalls•Full life cycle engineering: design, configuration, implementation, and management•Perform testing of OS upgrades and deploy updates to production devices

Chantilly, Va, Us

•Completed Palo Alto Networks installation, configuration, and management training (EDU-201)•Completed Palo Alto Networks cyberthreat management course (EDU-231)•Completed Palo Alto Networks advanced debugging and troubleshooting (EDU-311)•Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Juniper SSG, SRX, and virtual Juniper devices•Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Cisco routers switches, and ASAs•Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Vyatta virtual routers•Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, Panoramas, and Wildfire hardware•Extensive experience with the use of SYSLOG and SPLUNK for troubleshooting•Significant experience with network security concepts, best practices, and technologies including, but not limited, to SSH, IPSec, RADIUS, TACACS, firewall policies, and 802.1x;•Significant experience with site to site VPN technologies •Full life cycle engineering: design, configuration, implementation, and management

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

•First article network engineering design, pilot, and implementation projects with a focus on network security at a customer location•Responsible for the programmatic control of a minimum of 20 concurrent projects•Gain project concurrence at customer required enterprise control gates•Provide guidance concerning engineering and cost to meet program objectives•Oversee lab testing of next generation firewalls, produce documentation, and present results to government management for selection as enterprise standard •Access knowledge bases on the Internet to aid in troubleshooting•Oversee the implementation of patches to resolve critical IOS security flaws•Chair the formal peer review of first-article network designs prior to review from the Chief Networking Officer•Assist in the installation of Dell and HP servers, Cisco, and other hardware in government research and development laboratories•Manage high visibility projects that successfully improve the reliability of executive level mobile technology•Balance engineering resources between projects•Tailor customer’s Project Management Framework (PMF) to facilitate projectcompliance•Facilitate project requirements gathering and documentation•Create project briefings and documentation deliverables•Utilize established customer hardware procurement processes•Experience with auditing and access control including associated policies, requirements, and implementation•Experienced operation with Linux, Microsoft and Apple operating systems•Proficient use of technical software applications, including Putty, hardware GUIs and CLI, Splunk, Wireshark, McAfee, Norton, and Kaspersky antivirus•FNS was sold to Jacobs Technology

Norfolk, Va, Us