Ummer I.

👑 Expert Vetted - Top 1% of talent on Upwork ⭐️ Top Rated Plus - Highly rated for work on large projects 🎯 100% Job Success Score 🕒 4000+ hours on Upwork ✅ 15+ years of experience ✅ 50+ projects delivered ✅ Excelling in delivering Fortune 500-scale projects Over 15 years of extensive experience in Cloud Environment, Corporate Network, FinTechs and ISPs. In Summary, my credentials include, Cybersecurity, NGFW & SASE Palo Alto Networks PA-Series/VM-Series, PAN-OS, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager, Prisma Access, SASE, GlobalProtect, ZTNA 2.0, SWG, Explicit Proxy, Clientless VPN, Prisma Browser, Cloud Identity Engine, CASB, SaaS Security, Enterprise DLP, Strata Logging Service, App-ID, User-ID, WildFire, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering and DNS Security; Cisco ASA/FTD/FMC; Fortinet FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox; F5 BIG-IP LTM, Expedition, FortiConverter Security Operations, Endpoint, Identity & AI Security Cortex XDR, XSIAM, XSOAR and Xpanse; Cortex XDR Agent, Broker VM, EDR Data Collection, Cortex Analytics, Host Insights, IOC/BIOC, XQL, Malware/Exploit Prevention, Syslog Ingestion, Event Correlation and Threat Hunting; SIEM, Wazuh, Rapid7 and Microsoft Defender; Idira, PAM, Secrets Management, Identity Governance, ITDR, Endpoint Privilege Management, Prisma AIRS and AI Access Security Cloud, Identity, Systems & Virtualization Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC, Intune, Windows 365 Cloud PC, Virtual Networks, NAT Gateway, Virtual Machines, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud and log archiving; AWS EC2, VPC, Direct Connect and Transit Gateway; GCP VPC and Partner Interconnect; Linux, Windows Server, VMware, Hyper-V and containers Routing, Switching & ISP Architecture BGP Multihoming, OSPF, Policy-Based and Static Routing, Route Maps, HSRP, VRRP, MPLS, GRE/IPsec, RADIUS, TACACS+, AAA, LNS, DHCP, NAT/PAT and Flow Monitoring; Catalyst, NX-OS, VXLAN, VPC, VSS, StackWise, VLANs, STP/RSTP, LACP, Port Security and Dynamic ARP Inspection Automation, DCIM, Monitoring & Documentation Python, Ansible, PAN-OS Modules, REST APIs, YAML, Jinja2, Terraform, Git and Linux automation; NetBox, DCIM and IPAM; Zabbix, SNAP, SolarWinds, SNMP, Syslog and Wireshark; operational-data collection, security hardening, compliance validation, capacity planning, Confluence, HLDs, LLDs and technical documentation PCNSE, PCNSA, PAN-NGFW, PAN NetSec Professional CCNA 200-120 CCNA Security 640-554 CCNP R & S