Karthik Siva

• Providing multi-vendor technical expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching, Proxy and Firewall
technologies.
• Extensive experience in developing and delivering IS security standards, best practices,
architecture and systems to ensure information system security across the enterprise;
implementing procedures and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to
information security standards.
• Adept in migrating non-compliant environments to compliant environments; evaluating the
organization to ensure compliance with regulators, standards and relevance with industry security
norms.
• Experienced in documenting all the security policies and to promote activities and procedures to
create a general awareness about the significance of security within an organization; reviewing
the security plans that have been implemented on the systems throughout the entire network of
the organization.

• Played vital role as leader, in-charge of the strategic direction and implementation of
information/cyber security projects to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of
organization strategic goals.
• Provided technical leadership to SOC, IAM, Vulnerability Management and Firewall teams related
to Security Best Practices.
• Conducted gap assessment for the Security tools and presented to clients.
• Deft in initiating, developing, and maintaining information security policies and procedures and to
ensure that the security strategies are being followed, so as to meet the organizational security
goals and standards; identifying the security risks involved and resolve them, to perform
assessment of security risks and to function as an auditor for security.

• Played vital role as leader, in-charge of the strategic direction and implementation of
information/cyber security projects to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of
organizational strategic goals.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal teams regarding the delivery of Security operations,
system designs, security evaluations, recommendations, compliance procedure and practices
needed to meeting policies and regulations.
• Provided technical leadership to evaluate, recommend, design, and integrate new security
technology and tools (SIEM, WAF, APT, PAM) related to security operation center(SOC) by
conducting feasibility studies, proof of concepts and pilot projects.
• Extensive experience in developing and delivering IS security standards, best practices,
architecture and systems to ensure information system security across the enterprise;
implementing procedures and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to
information security standards.
• Adept in migrating non-compliant environments to compliant environments; evaluating the
organization to ensure compliance with regulators, standards and relevance with industry security
norms.
• Deft in initiating, developing, and maintaining information security policies and procedures and to
ensure that the security strategies are being followed, so as to meet the organizational security
goals and standards; identifying the security risks involved and resolve them, to perform
assessment of security risks and to function as an auditor for security.
• Experienced in documenting all the security policies and to promote activities and procedures to
create a general awareness about the significance of security within an organization; reviewing
the security plans that have been implemented on the systems throughout the entire network of
the organization.

• Provided multi-vendor technical expertise in the areas of LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, Load Balancing
and Firewall technologies to multiple customer.
• Understanding problems and troubleshooting the issues with minimal supervision and bringing
back the Data Center network to normalcy.
• Proactively manage the service and security requirements of the DC network to an average of
99.999% uptime.
• Developing tactical and strategic plans, standards, guidelines and policies for the network
resources based on growth, trends, available metrics, etc.

• Provided multi-vendor technical expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching, Proxy and Firewall
technologies to multiple customer.
• Understanding problems and troubleshooting the issues with minimal supervision and bringing
back the Data Center network to normalcy.
• Maintained Local India office Network along with Overseas DCs.
• Developing tactical and strategic plans, standards, guidelines and policies for the network
resources based on growth, trends, available metrics, etc.

• Worked as Field support engineer and involved in Projects and troubleshooting issues related to
Network Security domain.
• Worked on multiple projects New Implementation/Migration/Upgradation (multi-vendor) and
completed on time.
• Creating POA, LLD and HLD for customers and getting project sign-off.

• Provided multi-vendor technical expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching and Firewall
technologies to multiple customer.
• Understanding problems and troubleshooting the issues with minimal supervision and bringing
back the Data Center network to normalcy.
• Proactively manage the service and security requirements of the DC network to an average of
99.999% uptime.

• Started my career as Trainee and worked for multiple customers providing L1 support like Routers,
Switches Installation and IOS upgradation.
• Progressed and handled L3 Ticket in Hyderabad region with minimal escalation to HO.
• Worked on multiple projects New Implementation/Migration/Upgradation (multi-vendor) and
completed on time.
• Conducted PoC for many products and implemented the same at customer sites as per customer
requirement.
• Created POA, LLD and HLD for customers and getting project sign-off.
• Understanding customer problems and troubleshooting live network with minimal supervision
and bringing back to normalcy within SLA.
• Given support for 24x7x365 and on-site support as needed.