Salim J.
Principal Cloud Solution Architect Data Sec at Virsec- Claim this Profile
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UlugBeck Nurmatov
Salim is the best intellectual investment made by Cisco .I was working back to back with Salim for over the year and learn more from him then I could read from books. Salim is a greatest part to the company success.
UlugBeck Nurmatov
Salim is the best intellectual investment made by Cisco .I was working back to back with Salim for over the year and learn more from him then I could read from books. Salim is a greatest part to the company success.
UlugBeck Nurmatov
Salim is the best intellectual investment made by Cisco .I was working back to back with Salim for over the year and learn more from him then I could read from books. Salim is a greatest part to the company success.
UlugBeck Nurmatov
Salim is the best intellectual investment made by Cisco .I was working back to back with Salim for over the year and learn more from him then I could read from books. Salim is a greatest part to the company success.
Credentials
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Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional
Amazon Web Services (AWS) -
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Professional
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Azure Architect Design - AZ-304
Microsoft Azure Certification Exams -
Azure Architect Technologies -AZ-303
Microsoft Azure Certification Exams -
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Azure Certification Exams -
CHFI Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator Certification
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Compellent Certified Storage Architect
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NPSE (Nutanix Sales Engineer)
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NPSR
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VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
VMware
Experience
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Virsec
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal Cloud Solution Architect Data Sec
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Jul 2018 - Present
• Responsible for Infrastructure, workload and data security Architecture for deployment using Custom AMI and CloudFormation Stack on GCP/AWS.gov. • Responsible POC and Architecture custom security platform on EKS Environment with Docker and Kubernetes from scratch using CFT and Ansible playbooks. • Hands-on with Kafka summarized activity relevant to: Apache Kafka - Real-time Stream Processing. • Amazon CDC, ETL summarized activity relevant to: Data Engineering, Serverless ETL & BI on Amazon Cloud. • Azure Databrick summarized activity to: Data Engineers using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory. • AWS: Amazon AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C1) • Platform: AWS EKS, Dockers, Kubernetes & AWS ECS Fargate: • AWS DevOps CI/CD tools: Code Pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch • General CI/CD Tools: Github, Gitbash, Jira, Maven, Selenium, JFrog Artifactory, Vagrant, Jenkins, Ansible, Nagios. • Scripting Language: Bash Shell Scripting, Python and YAML for Ansible Playbooks and Cloud Formation Stack, JFrog Automation deployment of Docker Images. • Several years of Hands-on experience designing and building solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS. • Hands-on experience working with cloud automation tools such as AWS Cloud Formations. • In depth practical experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, trends and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.
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Zentera Systems
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr. Security Architect / Engineer- Zentera Systems Inc
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Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
• Senior Architect/Engineer for Zentera's Cloud Agnostic Overlay network and Universal VPC. • Implementation of Universal VPC with converging workload from geographically dispersed Public Cloud (GCP,AWS). • Designed Secured workspace is the cloud which includes Micro Segmentation, IDS IPS, App interlock and more. • Planned and hands-on involvement with large scale Cloud Migration, I designed Cloud network using Zentera’s overlay network technology to mimic the existing network topology and IP scheme, so the migration does not impact the user base and vendor connectivity. • Hands-on implementation of Kubernetes with Docker Containers to implement overlay network over containerized worked load. Experience with Calico & Flannel SDN layer for Container nodes communication. • Kubernetes Installation & Cluster Config, Setup Auto-scaling & Scalability using both Kubernetes. • Hands-on with Kubernetes Load Balancing traffic between different containers and pods. • Reasonable familiarity with Docker swarm does auto load balancing of traffic between containers in the cluster. • Rolling Updates & Rollbacks can deploy rolling updates and does automatic rollbacks. • Experienced with using Logging & Monitoring. In-built tools for logging and monitoring. • Hands on implementation of Layer 5 based overlay network in cloud, penetration to subnets or directly to workload without VPN, Direct Connect or SD-WAN. • In depth understanding on SAAS base Web Gateway Appliance riding over internet using TLS Dynamic tunnels. • Responsible for Customer Success and POC of Zero Trust Network & Security solutions. • Extensive experience deploying convergence of large Hybrid could (AWS, GCP & Azure) project involving POC implementation of Secure WorkSpace in cloud using Zentera’s Universal VPC technology and Secure Access via Web Gateways.
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Dell Technologies
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr DC & Cloud Storage Architect (Dell Storage & Compute)
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Jan 2011 - Feb 2014
•Senior DSE - Storage Sales Architect for Dell's Larger Enterprise Customers, Healthcare, Education, and Government accounts offering Dell Storage Product portfolio: Dell Compellent, Dell Equallogic, Dell MD series, Dell DR solutions, Nutanix, Solidfire, Dell Microsoft Storage Spaces, Dell Nexenta SDS. •Helped customers build their cloud infrastructure using our servers, storage and networking or preconfigured converged infrastructure, and offer a variety of platforms including OpenStack, VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. •Power Edge Blade, Tower and Rack Servers. Dell PowerValut, Equallogic and Compellent storage. Dell Power Connect and Dell Force10 MXL series switches. •Involved in product ROAD map meeting on-site with customers to discuss upcoming new release of Dell Server, Storage, Networking, Software and Services. •Helped designed and implementation of Software Defined Storage (Nexenta) for POC on Dell Servers and Converged Systems for private and public cloud.. •First-hand knowledge of VMware NSX SDN platform as Vmware is Dell’s premier partner. •Perform in-house demos for customers at Dell Solution Center or at Customer site for Dell Products. Capable of doing in-depth technical demo’s featuring Dell’s product line and get feedback from customer and facilitates sales leads. •Performed hand-on POC setups for Dell’s customer. POC are driven based on customer’s requirement and use cases. • Involved in preparation of BOM creation based on customer requirements in order to generate quotes. • Configure systems spec for BOM based on customer’s CFI requirement. • Establish and maintain business relationship with Dell’s partners and authorized resellers. Assist them to establish sales leads and deliver product and services adequately. Provide them Data Center product pre and post sales deployment.
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Technical Solutions Architect– Cisco Inc.
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Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
• Customer Facing Role: Supporting Cisco prime customers including Qwest, AT&T, Orange. Dimension Data • Involved in systems sales process and Custom solution design for United Health Care including private cloud for Video and Physician collaboration with several location of UHC within united states.. • Experienced with Telepresence, CTX, CUCM, SBC, CTC, CTMS, Tandberg, IP Phones, Router, Switches and More. • Designed custom VCE (Vmware, Cisco, EMC) Vblock on Equinix Data Center. Deployed Virtualized Infrastructure for Healthcare solutions which includes various Unified Communication Systems, Call Manager, Media Servers and more proprietary systems. • Deployed Flex Pod with Cisco UCS, Network and NetApp Storage for Cisco Smart Business Architecture for Data Centers, Development and Test environment at Cisco. • NetApp Array Management : Storage Provisioning, Aggregates, Flexible Volumes, Enabling an Ethernet Storage Interface, Creating an Initiator Group, Creating a LUN for iSCSI or Fiber Channel and Thin Provisioning. • NetApp Deduplication, NetApp Snapshot, NetApp FlexClone • NetApp Backups, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability : Backup and Recovery Concepts, Disaster Recovery • Business Continuance Concepts, NetApp SnapMirro, NetApp SnapVault • NetApp Monitoring and Management: NetApp SnapManager, NetApp Operations Manager, NetApp Protection Manager NetApp Provisioning Manager • Interact with customer directly to identify issues with the system installation and replicate the scenario in-house to reproduce the problem and recommend solutions accordingly. • Implemented VMware, vSphere 4.x/5.x, vCenter 4.x/4.x, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCloud Director/Connector. • Having Technical Sales background and extensive customer facing role has helped me excel and deliver Cisco’s large size custom solutions for Larger enterprise customers.
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Education
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1987 - 1992
Maharaja Sayaji Rao University
Masters -
2016 - 2018
Simplilearn Alumni
Master Program - Artificial Intellegence & Machine Learning, AI & ML
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