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Bogdan Neacsu

Network Security Engineer - Extranet Planning Services

Bogdan Neacsu
Bucharest, Romania

Experience

Jul 2024 - Present
1 year 7 months
Bucharest, Romania

Network Security Engineer - Extranet Planning Services

Ford Motor Company

  • Member of the team responsible for planning and delivery of Extranet solutions for partners/suppliers to access Ford resources, meeting security infrastructure needs in a cost effective and timely manner while maintaining Ford's security policy.

  • Design, installation, configuration and deployment of VPN-based Extranet solutions globally.

  • Configure firewalls and partner with technical peers to create robust network solutions.

  • Refresh end-of-lease and end-of-support Extranet devices.

  • Upgrade code on Extranet firewalls, routers and switches.

  • Decommission obsolete hardware through change control processes.

  • Perform Cisco peer review of change controls.

  • Provide 3rd level technical support to the Extranet Operations team.

  • Deliver Check Point Extranet consulting services for customers seeking assistance with Extranet solutions.

  • Review deployed application project build diagrams for Fortinet solutions.

Aug 2021 - Jul 2024
3 years

Senior Consulting Engineer - Infrastructure Security

Juniper Networks

  • Conducted detailed assessments of security infrastructure to prioritize program remediation or improvement for various business segments.
  • Installed and configured security solutions for intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, SIEM, and MDM.
  • Ensured network security best practices through Tufin auditing of change control, firewall configurations, and monitoring.
  • Coordinated and oversaw log analysis for company-managed Ansible Automation services offerings to ensure customer policy and security requirements were met.
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
4 years 4 months
Bucharest, Romania

Senior Advisor - Network Security Engineering

Secureworks Europe SRL

  • Troubleshooted and resolved firewall issues in production environments in a secure manner, interfacing with internal clients and collaborating with diverse departments.
  • Performed ongoing network fine tuning, upgrades and enhancements to optimize network performance, availability, stability and security.
Jun 2013 - Sep 2016
3 years 4 months
Bucharest, Romania

Network Security Engineer

Oracle Romania SRL

  • Responded to monitor alarms to identify the root cause of outages and coordinated corrective actions in a timely fashion.
  • Performed regular vulnerability and capacity management checks for network and network security components.
  • Participated in project-based activities to engage customers, collect and consolidate business and technical requirements, design and implement solutions conforming to industry standard best practices for networking and network security.
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
8 months
Bucharest, Romania

Security Engineer

METROSYSTEMS Romania SRL

  • Performed daily operations, change management and maintenance of security infrastructure, focusing on Check Point firewall appliances.
  • Managed the active rule-base of METRO GROUP Check Point country and store firewalls.
  • Troubleshooted and resolved live network security issues, restoring services in question.
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
2 months

METRO Firewall Renewal Project

METROSYSTEMS Romania SRL

  • Large firewall replacement project for 300 locations across Germany.
  • Installed and configured Check Point firewall clusters for all locations.
  • Performed rollout, implementation, production testing and troubleshooting of firewalls.
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
1 year 3 months
Bucharest, Romania

Network Engineer

METROSYSTEMS Romania SRL

  • Provided first and second level support for international leased lines, delivering daily/weekly status updates and statistics reports.
  • Monitored LAN/WAN infrastructure for MCC and Real stores, head offices and international leased lines.
  • Monitored and troubleshooted firewall issues for Real stores as 2nd level support, escalating major issues to 3rd level support in Germany's Network Service Center Global Communication Services.
  • Provided server security services for MCC infrastructure worldwide, scanning servers for security policy breaches by country.
Jun 2010 - Aug 2011
1 year 3 months
Buzău, Romania

Wireless Access Network Development and Deployment

Independent/Contract

  • Designed and deployed a wireless access network with multiple access towers in a rural zone of Buzau, Romania, based on Mikrotik and Ubiquiti equipment for core and endpoints.
  • Monitored, maintained and administered the wireless network infrastructure.

Summary

With over ten years of experience in network security engineering, I worked with clients from various industries and regions, to design, implement, and optimize their network security infrastructure, using multi-vendor technologies. I deployed and managed network security solutions for multiple large-scale projects, ensuring compliance, performance, and reliability and also supported the pre and post deployment processes, providing technical guidance, demonstrations, and troubleshooting.

Skills

  • Security Infrastructure Assessment
  • Extranet Solutions Deployment
  • Vpn Technologies
  • Firewall Configuration & Management
  • Change Control
  • Cisco
  • Check Point
  • Fortinet
  • Juniper
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Palo Alto Firefly
  • Vmware Nsx V/t
  • Vmware Cloud On Aws (Vmc)
  • F5 - Ltm/gtm/asm
  • Tufin
  • Ansible Automation
  • Firemon
  • Algosec
  • Splunk
  • Infoblox
  • Solarwinds
  • Ubiquity
  • Mikrotik
  • Motorola
  • Palo Alto Prisma
  • Zscaler

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2007 - Jun 2011

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics

BSc · Engineering, Computers and Information Technology · Bucharest, Romania

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