Amitabh Mishra, Network & Security Architect

Amitabh Mishra

Network & Security Architect

Tech Mahindra

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Experience
14 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months

Network & Security Architect at Tech Mahindra
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2014

• Thoroughly assess technical needs and requirements as well as network infrastructure design status including integration and operations.
• Hold responsibility for all critical projects while working with various clients on infrastructure deployment and security solutions.
• Maintain active involvement in business and technical engagements with Juniper, Fortigate, Bluecoat, F5 Networks, HP, Cisco, Aruba, and other technology companies; as well as in product lines development used as the competitive advantage in collaboration with various business units.
• Render business strategies and technical direction for mobility services and wireless setup and RF designing.
• Conduct in-depth cause analysis in solving issues with potential system dependencies and maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise data and architecture diagrams.
• Received the Guru Salute Award within one year of working in Company.
• Determined and implemented best practices in performance tuning and optimization toward the identification of performance bottlenecks.

Network Infrastructure Engineer at Akamai Technology
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2012 to December 2013

• Coordinated installation and maintenance of over 8000 servers in Asia/Pacific, the
The Middle East, and the France, Belgium, Egypt, Turkey areas.
• Managed contractors in several countries, prioritizing and coordinating their work in
order to install new POPs and keep them running
• Configured and maintained over 1000 BGP feeds with almost 500 ASes
• Wrote many Perl and PHP scripts to automate repetitive tasks, and provide metrics for
management.
• Worked with other internal groups to define and refine procedures for smooth workflow between groups
• Created and maintained new hire documentation
Network Infrastructure and Server Hardware Architect well versed in IP networking
with a high EECS background.
Specific expertise in extremely distributed server deployment (both domestic and
international) and global datacenter architecture. Current work is in hardware selection,
server design, performance testing, and power optimization. Particularly adept at
tackling challenging problems relating to hardware and software on the Internet.

Systems Engineer/ Implementation Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services
  • India - Bengaluru
  • January 2010 to April 2012

a. Tata Communication Ltd
• Network Infrastructure Manager/ Datacenter migration expert for VMWare based environment.

b. General Motors
•Datacenter Manager, responsibility includes managing physical data center environment, asset management, and network administration.

c. Deutsche Finance Limited
•Worked as a system Engineer to replace the legacy financial application with Tata's banking solution Banks.
•Responsibilities involved coordination with all Infrastructure team and •Datacenter professional to get the infrastructure ready for TCS Financial solution ( BANCS ) installation and stabilization.

d. CMS Computer Ltd
•Network Infrastructure Manager/ Datacenter migration expert for VMWare based environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
  • at Army Institute of Technology
  • August 2009

Bachelor's Degree Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication. Emphasis in Digital Signal Processing and Network/Traffic Engineering.

Bayt Tests

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Score 78%

Specialties & Skills

Information Security Management
Fortinet
F5 BigIP
Juniper
Network & Security Designing
Network & Performance Monitoring ( HP NNMi, Solarwind, Nagios, Cacti, Cisco Prime, NetScout)
Network and Security Administration
Proxy ( Symantec, Web Sense, Z Scalar, MacAfee, Trend Micro, Squid, TMG)
Load Balancers & Application delivery Controller ( F5, Citrix, Radware, Barracuda )
Project Management
Security Operations ( DDoS Appliance, SIEM, IPS/IDS, DNS Security, DLP, Malware Analysis )
Wireless Solution and Management ( Aruba, Cisco, FortiWiFi )
Firewall Administration & Implementation ( Fortinet, Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto ,Checkpoint )
Scripting language ( Perl, Python, Bash, TCL, awk & Sed )

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

IEEE
  • Member
  • March 2015
IEEE Computer Society
  • Member
  • March 2015
IEEE Standards Association Individual
  • Member ( Global Standards )
  • March 2015
Cybersecurity Community, IEEE
  • Fellow
  • March 2015

Training and Certifications

Blue Coat Security Certification (Training)
Training Institute:
BlueCoat Professional Services
Date Attended:
December 2014
Duration:
48 hours
Cisco Certified Network Associate ( Security ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
RedHat Certified System Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Cisco Certified Network Associate ( R & S ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
RedHat Certified Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Fortinet Certified Engineer (Training)
Training Institute:
Mubadala Organised
Date Attended:
April 2014
Duration:
120 hours
Certified Ethical Hacker (Training)
Training Institute:
ISC2
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
40 hours
Offensive Security Certified Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Offensive Security
Date Attended:
March 2014
Duration:
140 hours
BigIP Certified Administrator ( F5 Networks ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Juniper Certified Internetworking Associate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
Information Security Certified Professional ( 4011 Recognition ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Reading
    Like to read ( about some core technologies ), i consider my career in IT as accomplishment of this hobby.