Manaswini Kondiparthy

Network Security Engineer with 4.6 years’ experience in firewall environments, supporting enterprise networks, and infrastructure operations. Hands on experience in routing and switching, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, security policies, and network automation. Worked on technologies like Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, AWS, Arista, Python, Microsoft Azure, and Ansible, with good exposure to DevOps practices.

Well versed in troubleshooting network and security issues, applying configuration changes, and working with infrastructure and application teams to keep services secure and available.

Senior Network Security Engineer - Mastercard - MN

(2025-06)

• Supporting enterprise network security systems, including firewalls, routing and switching equipment, VPNs, and network access controls.
• Configured and updated Palo Alto firewalls, working with security rules, NAT, application controls, URL filtering, threat prevention, and VPN connections.
• Well versed in Cisco and Arista networks, VLANs, routing protocols, trunking, high availability setups, and Layer 2 and Layer 3 troubleshooting.
• Helped maintain SD-WAN and WAN connections serving branch offices, data centers, and hybrid network environments.
• Reviewed network performance and security alerts, investigated connectivity problems, and worked through root causes to reduce service interruptions.
• Supported Azure networking and AWS, virtual networks, routing, access controls, and secure links between cloud and on-premises systems.
• Wrote and maintained Python scripts and Ansible playbooks, configuration checks, and troubleshooting tasks.
• Worked with cloud infrastructure, security, and application teams to implement changes, resolve incidents, and support ongoing projects.
• Kept network diagrams, firewall rules, configuration standards, operating procedures, and change records up to date.
• Assisted with network upgrades and security improvements, including change coordination and post-change testing.

Network Security Engineer - Hilmar Cheese

(2023-12 - 2025-05)

• Configured and troubleshot enterprise firewall rules, remote-access VPNs, ACLs, site-to-site VPN connections and NAT policies
• Supported Cisco routing and switching, BGP, OSPF, EtherChannel, VLANs, trunk ports, spanning tree, and network redundancy.
• Assisted with SD-WAN rollouts and branch connectivity, helped improve network performance and investigated WAN issues.
• Troubleshot firewall connection failures, DNS/DHCP incidents and investigated WAN issues.
• Used tools for monitoring and diagnosis of network availability, device health, bandwidth usage, and security events.
• Provided support for AWS and Azure networking and hybrid connectivity.
• Used Python scripts and Ansible to simplify configuration tasks and routine operational checks and to keep changes consistent.
• Helped review firewall rules, maintain network segmentation, address vulnerabilities, and update security policies.
• Coordinated planned changes and maintenance with technical teams, including implementation checks and rollback planning.
• Documented troubleshooting steps, incidents, and technical changes in line with team procedures.

Network Support Engineer - Explorico - India

(2022-01 - 2023-07)

• Took care of daily network support involving Cisco routers and switches, connectivity issues, and general infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Configured and maintained VLANs, trunk and access ports, and routing and switching settings.
• Assisted in firewall administration, security policy changes, VPN troubleshooting, and connectivity testing.
• Investigated performance problems and outages using command-line tools, device logs, packet captures, and monitoring systems.
• Supported WAN, wireless, LAN and branch connectivity while following management procedures.
• Assisted with software upgrades, backed up network device configurations and configuration checks, and post change testing.
• Worked with engineers to resolve incidents and assisted in network deployments and migrations.
• Looked after and updated network inventory, topology diagrams, IP address records,and support documentation.
• Contribution towards scripting and automation tasks which aimed at reducing repetitive network. administration.

Master of Science - Data Analytics - Concordia University St Paul, Minnesota (2023-08 - 2024-12)

Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication Engineering - Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology (2018-08 - 2022-12)