Latest Engagement

British Telecom / EE

- Assisted with deployment and commissioning of two new VMware Hyperconverged Clusters across multiple software defined data-centers, using VCF, vSAN, and NSX-T.
- Following extensive penetration testing, I assisted with vulnerability remediation, quickly improving the security posture for EE avoiding huge fines from Ofcom.
- Assistance provided to BAU team to prioritise and complete AD separation / migration tasks, to comply with CISSP security architecture and governance frameworks.
- Successfully completed key project deliverables by introducing identity based firewalling in NSX-T, in order to better secure or isolate east / west traffic for third party vendors, connecting from external environments.
- Produced documentation for distributed FW rules, proposing policy changes where required. Updated documentation and diagrams in Confluence as and when required
- Assisted in designing the Active Directory based RBAC controls, to correspond with the NSX micro-segmentation strategy.
- Frequently supported BAU teams with Root Cause Analysis, using tools such as VMware Aria and vROPS.
- Managed the software lifecycle for Citrix App-V applications, from test/dev through to deployment in production, as well as the decommissioning of applications used primarily for Orange.co.uk.
- Introduced numerous AD group policies, hardening the Citrix security, preventing the use of Copy/Paste, Print, Timezone redirection, and local drives, to named users only. Also introduced AppLocker policies and FSLogix for further environment hardening.
- Acted as a core liaison between NOC and Infrastructure teams, to ensure the full capabilities of vROPS and Centreon tools were utilized to monitor newly deployed vSphere Clusters.
- Assisted in the design and deployment of new Citrix Sites, leveraging the latest releases of MS Windows and RHEL Server, SQL Server, as well as Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops.
- Introduced new F5 load balancing of StoreFront web interfaces.