Bogdan Neacsu
Network Security Engineer - Extranet Planning Services
Experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (12 years), Automotive (1.5 years), Retail (1 year), and Telecommunication (1 year).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (15 years), Operations (7 years), and Customer Service (1 year).
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
Education
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
BSc · Engineering, Computers and Information Technology · Bucharest, Romania
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