8+ years hands-on experience with next-generation firewall platforms (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco), IDS/IPS technologies (Snort, Suricata, vendor platforms),Network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, routing, switching), Network packet analysis (Wireshark, tcpdump), VPN technologies (IPSec, SSL VPN), DNS security, Network segmentation and micro segmentation