Nazish Sameer Shaikh Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Worked on utilizing FortiAnalyzer and FortiManager for centralized logging, reporting, and configuration management, enhancing network visibility, analysis, and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated expertise in optimizing FortiGate firewalls for high availability (HA) configurations, load balancing, and failover mechanisms, ensuring continuous network
• Worked with team to deploy advanced security components on FortiGate Firewalls, incorporating Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), and Web Application Firewalls (WAF) to bolster network.
• Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure Fortinet solutions aligned with regulatory requirements and industry standards, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
• Managing Large Palo Alto Firewall network including 50 remote offices, and three Data Centers using 5000, 500 and 200 series firewalls, Palo Alto Management Software Panorama.

New York, United States

• ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Conducted Palo Alto advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) activities using TRAPS to investigate security incidents and anomalies.
• Worked on scripting and automation on Palo Alto to streamline routing TRAPS tasks, updates security policies, and improve operational efficiency.
• Gathering information and co-ordinate with business before we migrate checkpoint to Palo Alto firewalls. Troubleshooting and installing of CRS, ISR, GSR, ASR9000 and Nexus devices.
• Integrated PA-7000, PA-5000, PA-3000 series dashboard with Panorama for centralized security policy management, enabling consistency across multiple devices and locations.
• Implemented with WildFire, Palo Alto’s cloud-based threat analysis service enables the identification and prevention of unknown and zero-day threats through sandboxing.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Worked on Cisco ASA/Palo Alto Firewall troubleshooting and policy change request for new IP segments that are either present in the network. Performed upgrade of Cisco ASA firewall.
• Responsible for working on the vendor DMZ migration project to migrate various vendors on SRX/SSG firewalls to unified Cisco ASA device in our primary/redundant datacenters.
• Experienced in reviewing and evaluating current and future design issues as required maintaining network integrity, efficient data flow. With Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.
• Managing and maintaining Checkpoint firewalls, IPS/IDS, and Endpoint servers, PKI and network security network.
• Actively monitored and managed Zscaler dashboards and reports to detect and respond to security events, anomalies, and potential threats.

India

• ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Maintained network performance by network monitoring analysis performance tuning and escalating support to the vendors.
• Established the network specifications by conferring with users through analysing work flow, access Information, designing router administration, interface configuration and routing protocols.
• Created network diagrams and documentation for design using documentation tools like MS VISIO.
• Configured IPsec site-to-site VPN connection between Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator and Cisco 3800.
• Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tunings As-Path.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

System, Networking, And Lan/Wan Management/Manager