Jacques Erasmus Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

South Africa

Responsibilities: • Member of the InfoSec team for a national retail & wholesale company, responsible for daily operations and change requests while maintaining security standards, Additionally, I dedicated time on larger projects which improved our security stance and modernised the network• Main focus on all Firewall changes and maintenance of all Enterprise FWs as well as FortiManager configurations to regional branch offices; assisted with standardising configs for remote firewalls with assistance from 3rd party consultants; • Responsible for green fields introduction of a FortiAnalyzer, from Demand, SSP, POC to Implementation• As Lead Technical Engineer, worked closely with third party partners to complete projects which introduced new Hardware and Solutions to the current network, from SSP, POC to implementation: Big-IP F5 SSLO, F5 LTM for ADFS, Introducing a new Egress and Ingress security stack• Worked closely with Fortinet for all related support queries and bug fixes • Adhere to strict Change Control process and change windows approved by Business, working closely with CAB team – for ALL changes• Regular communications with Project Management team when implementing new solutions to improve and modernise the network as well as communicate to business Risk, Impact and Justification for changes • Engaged consultants for major Palo Alto and Big-IP F5 implementation projects as well as complex migrations of networks from legacy environments to new Data Centres while minimising risk, downtime and impact • Ensure Documentation is created & updated for all projects and shared with team• Introduced bi-annual audits of firewalls to ensure that PCI-, company security policies- and network best practices are maintained (Firewall standards, Naming Conventions, Secure Policies, Comments, etc.) • Manage access rights with AD team for Associates and 3rd Parties via corporate VPN and ensure all security measures are in place for access (2FA and Jumpbox access)

Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa

Responsibilities: • Management and maintenance of Customer and Shared Enterprise Firewalls • Execute customer requests while advising on Security matters and best practices • Regularly Audits of Customer- and Enterprise Firewalls and report with findings • Maintain network and security standards • Assist with business projects like network migrations and network improvements • Fortinet and Checkpoint devices

Responsibilities:• Manage logistics of installation of CPE for purchased solutions • Configuration of CPE namely Cisco Routers, DSL Modems, Netscreen Firewalls and FortiGate Firewalls • Engage customers and Sales team in designing favourable solutions • Engage Core Network team to ensure Last Mile links are configured correctly and align with solution design (Data/VoIP)

Waverley, Johannesburg

Responsibilities:• Advanced support for Vox customers as well as maintenance of Core Servers Networks • Cisco Routers and Switches (MPLS VRF setups), Ironport Mail security, Junos core Routers, Fortigate Firewalls, Fishbone DSL Line bonder, Diginet and Fibre link core setup, VoIP configs on links, minor Linux support

Centurion, Gauteng

Responsibilities:• Telephonic support of for SME business clients as well as home users • Fortinet, Netscreen, Cisco routers, Ironport Mail security, Diginet, DSL, escalations from junior engineers, in house training and skill sharing, minor Linux support

Responsibilities:• Remote telephone support for large customer base, mainly on home Dialup but also DSL and SME • Team leader for engineers, responsible for in house training and skill sharing • Variety of DSL router devices, dialup setup, MS desktop support, Customer interfacing

Programming Certification, C++ And Sql

Comprehensive Programming Course, C++ And Sql

Studied programming in C++ combined with SQL Databases

Highschool, Computer Science And Biology

Jncia Certification