🛡️ Technical Mastery — Deep Dive
Next‑Generation Firewalls (NGFW)
Juniper SRX (SRX300 to SRX5800): Advanced security policies, UTM, IDP, IPsec VPN, Junos automation (commit scripts, op scripts), chassis clustering, and high availability.
Fortinet FortiGate: Full deployment of FortiGate appliances (60F–1000D), security profiles, SSL inspection, SD‑WAN, FortiManager, IPsec/SSL VPN, and central logging.
Checkpoint R80.40 (CCSA): Security gateway clusters, SmartConsole management, DLP, IPS, application control, identity awareness, threat emulation, and logging.
Palo Alto PAN-OS (PA-220/820/VM): App‑ID, User‑ID, Content‑ID, WildFire analysis, GlobalProtect VPN, URL filtering, threat prevention, and Panorama management.
Juniper Networks (Routers, Switches, Firewalls)
Juniper MX Series Routers: MPLS L3VPN, BGP route reflection, traffic engineering, QoS, and advanced routing (IS‑IS, BGP, OSPF). Juniper EX/QFX Switches: VLANs, Virtual Chassis, MC‑LAG, EVPN‑VXLAN, port security, and Layer‑2/Layer‑3 switching. SRX Firewalls (as above). Deep knowledge of Junos CLI, configuration management, and automation (Ansible, REST API). JNCIP‑Enterprise & JNCIP‑Security certified.
Routing & Switching (Cisco / Multi‑Vendor)
Advanced routing: OSPF (multi‑area), EIGRP, BGP (iBGP/eBGP, communities, route reflectors), policy‑based routing. Switching: VLANs, STP/RSTP/MST, EtherChannel, Private VLANs, 802.1x, port security. WAN: DMVPN (phase 2/3), GRE/IPsec, MPLS L3VPN, VoIP routing (Cisco Call Manager). Cisco Meraki (MX/MS/MR). IPv6 deployment (OSPFv3, EIGRPv6, dual‑stack).
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Architecting highly available solutions: VPC (peering, transit gateway), EC2 auto scaling, Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), Lambda. Storage: S3 (lifecycle, replication), EBS, Glacier. Databases: RDS (Multi‑AZ), DynamoDB. Security: IAM, Cognito, AWS SSO, KMS. DevOps: CodePipeline, CloudFormation, ECS/EKS. Cost optimization with Trusted Advisor.
Microsoft Azure
VNet peering, NSG, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway (WAF), Load Balancer, Traffic Manager. VM Scale Sets, App Services, Functions. Storage: Blob, Data Lake Gen2. Security: Azure Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Conditional Access. Data: Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Azure AI.
Microsoft 365, AD & Entra ID
Windows Server AD (GPO, DNS, DHCP), ADConnect hybrid sync, Entra ID (Azure AD) conditional access, PIM, MFA. Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Intune MDM (compliance, Autopilot). M365 Compliance: DLP, sensitivity labels, retention policies. Defender for Office 365 & Endpoint. PowerApps & Power Automate.
Cybersecurity & Penetration Testing
Full lifecycle pentesting: Nmap, Nessus, OpenVAS, Metasploit, TheHarvester, Arpspoof, Sn1per, Hashcat, Maltego, Social Engineering Toolkit. MITRE ATT&CK framework. SIEM: Splunk, Azure Sentinel. Linux security: IPTables, UFW, SELinux. Vulnerability management, CVSS, NIST/ISO 27001 compliance.
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Microsoft Fabric: OneLake, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real‑Time Analytics. Power BI: DAX, Power Query, row‑level security, dashboards, gateways. Tableau: data source blending, calculated fields, interactive dashboards. Synapse Analytics & Data Factory for ETL pipelines. Database admin: Oracle 19c, MS SQL Server (Always On), AWS RDS. SSRS for paginated reports. Data modeling and performance tuning.
Linux, Virtualization & Orchestration
RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu: system admin, shell scripting, IPTables, SELinux. VMware vSphere (vMotion, DRS, HA), Hyper‑V. Docker (Compose, Swarm), Kubernetes (pods, services, ingress), OpenShift, Ansible automation. CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/GitLab.
Additional Technologies
F5 BIG‑IP LTM/GTM: virtual servers, iRules, SSL offload, HA. Primavera P6: project planning, resource management, earned value. Disaster recovery planning, cloud cost management.
💼 Work Experience
Logitrain – IT Instructor
Nov 2019 – Present (6+ years) | Melbourne, Australia
Delivering high‑impact training: Cybersecurity, NGFW (Juniper, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto), AWS/Azure, Microsoft 365 Security, Data Analytics. Corporate clients: Telstra, SA Power Networks, BHP, Boeing, Australian Government, Department of Defence. Build hands‑on labs with real gear and cloud sandboxes. Drive secure, compliant IT solutions.
🎓 Education
Charles Sturt University – MS in IT (Computer Networking)
PAF-KIET – Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunications Engineering)