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Network Security Engineer


A highly competent cybersecurity professional with over 3 years of experience and a strong background in implementation of network security tools. Cybersecurity lecturer and mentor with experience in managing a small team of engineers.


Key highlights:


·       Certified (CC; SSCP in progress) cybersecurity professional with specialized education;


·       Successfully implemented cybersecurity software and hardware in different countries, such as Germany, India, Switzerland, Egypt, UAE, etc;


·       Worked with different solutions, both internationally known (such as Cisco, Check Point, VMWare, Zabbix, Ixia Breakingpoint, and FortiTester) and localized (which required advanced problem-solving skills).

I am currently looking for roles with the opportunity to grow into Network Security Architect, SOC Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer or Cybersecurity manager. 


Experience: 3 years

Yearly salary: $44,000

Hourly rate: $35

Nationality: 🌏 Remote

Residency: 🇦🇲 Armenia


Experience

Network Security Engineer
ICL Group
2021 - 2023
Area of responsibility: Implementation and technical support of different cybersecurity products. Mostly, FW, NGFW, UTM, IPS and IDS. Participation in projects in different roles: Chief Project Engineer, Cybersecurity analyst, Network Security Engineer, L3 technical support. Achievements: 1. Participated in the development of information security systems and information security management systems that meet all regulatory standards. 2. Developed and maintained incident response protocols to mitigate damage and liability during security breaches. 3. Trained and mentored junior engineers, teaching skills in network security and working to improve overall team performance. 4. Created of the completest comparison of Russian NGFWs, which brought three new large clients to the company and allowed to establish closer ties with vendor representatives. 5. Created of business game about cybersecurity that became part of the company's official merchandise. 6. Integrated of protection tools that do not support cloud execution into the customer's cloud infrastructure. 7. Managed a team of 7 junior engineers on a security support project. 8. Involved in building the SOC, advising the SOC team on aspects of network security. Products: OTRS, Cisco, VMWare/vSphere, Check Point, OpenVPN, Wireguard, Zabbix, Ixia Breakingpoint, FortiTester, KICS for Networks, ViPNet, xFirewall, Ideco, Continet, Usergate, Diamond, Yandex Cloud, SberCloud.
Security Officer
Federal Tax Service of Russia
2020 - 2021
Area of responsibility: Information security assurance in the branch of FTS (200 employees). Implementation and support of information security tools. Training branch employees to work with information security tools. Monitoring the work of the Certificate authority. Achievements: 1. Created cybersecurity best practice communications to educate staff against known threats and potential vectors of attack. 2. Participated in the creation of device hardening techniques and protocols. 3. Developed and maintained incident response protocols to mitigate damage and liability during security breaches. 4. Managed relationships with third-party devices for electronic signature and two-factor authentication applications providers. 5. Designed company-wide policies to bring operations in line with regulatory standards. 6. Implemented and set up the certificate authority, trained staff as operators 7. Implemented DLP-system, investigated cybersecurity incidents, reduced the number of such an incident to the lowest rate in all branches in the region. 8. Detected and eliminated of several critical vulnerabilities in the security systems of the Federal Tax Service. Products: Active Directory, Windows Server, Kaspersky, BlockHost, MaxPatrol, CryptoPro.

Skills

admin
cloud
sys-admin
security
english
russian