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KIRAN SADASIVAN

KIRAN SADASIVAN

Hamilton,New Zealand

Summary

Certified Network Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto technologies. Expertise in seamlessly integrating, managing, and supporting network and firewall infrastructures within enterprise environments. Demonstrated success in Network Operations Center (NOC) roles and implementation projects, having provided top-tier technical support to clients worldwide at a leading U.S. bank and a multinational financial firm.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Network Specialist (Remote)

EastNets
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
01.2019 - Current
  • Function as a Network Specialist, providing support to over 300 financial entities across the Middle East, Europe, and the United States
  • Hands-on implementing Juniper SRX Branch Firewalls at customer locations
  • Onboarding Customers to EastNets network with IPsec VPNs to access financial services
  • Skilled in troubleshooting VPNs on Juniper Platforms and Palo Alto
  • Manage the internal network for EastNets including Nexus 3K, ASA, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Pulse Secure and Azure infrastructure.

Casual Computer Support

University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
01.2023 - 01.2023
  • Supporting users of the university as a part of Office 365 migration
  • Help Users set up the authentication, Office 365 suite access, and general hurdles of a migration from one platform to another.

Network Engineer

Alpha Data
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Plan, design, implement and manage complex LAN/WAN, Wireless and Firewall projects
  • Replacements and migrations of network infrastructure with EOL devices to the latest releases for higher resiliency and better throughput
  • Install, configure, test and maintain switches, routers and firewalls (Cisco, HP, Meraki, FortiGate) to ensure high availability and better throughput
  • Proactively assess configurations and standardize for effective troubleshooting
  • Perform planned maintenance for firmware upgrades and vulnerability fixes
  • Maintain inventory and topology diagram for customer networks.

Network Associate

Ernst and Young
Cochin, India
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Assisted the users and internal business units on their request for Domain Name Services such as adding a Domain Name System (DNS) entry, deleting Domain Name System (DNS) entry and modifying the Domain Name System (DNS) entry
  • Supported with network load balancers for Ernst and Young data center, such as addition, modification and deletion of VMs into the Load Balancer (Netscalar).

Network Analyst

WellsFargo
Bangalore, India
01.2013 - 01.2017
  • Worked as a Level2, Senior Network analyst in the incident team for the network support of more than 1000s of retail and 16 Data Centers of Wells Fargo Bank
  • Responsible for providing LAN/WAN connectivity to meet various business unit needs and Wells Fargo banking needs
  • Configuring and troubleshooting Routing and switching-related issues on OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VLANs, VTP, STPs installation of SUP, Line card replacements, and IOS upgradation of routers and switches at the data center
  • Participate in conference calls and associated bridge-lines with different stake holders of the bank for network incidents having business impacts
  • Aggregate team activity involves technical competence in Routing Switching.

Education

Master of Cybersecurity (MS) -

Waikato University
Hamilton, New Zealand
08.2024

Bachelor of Science (BS) -

Anna University
Chennai, India
12.2012

Skills

  • Network Routing and Switching (Cisco)
  • Network Firewalls (Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, FortiGate)
  • Infrastructure management on Azure
  • Cybersecurity Frameworks and best practices

Certification

  • CCNA
  • CCNA Security
  • CCNP (CSCO12213234)
  • JNCIA Security and JNCIS Security (JPR00289102) - Expired as of 2023
  • IELTS - 7.0

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Kerala, India
  • Title: Network Specialist/Pursuing Master of Cybersecurity
  • Date of Birth: 02/06/1990
  • Visa Status: Student Visa (Allowed to work Full-time as a part of Level 9 research)

Timeline

Casual Computer Support

University of Waikato
01.2023 - 01.2023

Network Specialist (Remote)

EastNets
01.2019 - Current

Network Engineer

Alpha Data
01.2018 - 01.2019

Network Associate

Ernst and Young
01.2017 - 01.2018

Network Analyst

WellsFargo
01.2013 - 01.2017

Master of Cybersecurity (MS) -

Waikato University

Bachelor of Science (BS) -

Anna University

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