About

Puneet Gupta is an experienced Security Consultant with over 10 years of IT experience, specializing in designing and developing security solutions. He is currently working as a Sr. IT Ops Specialist at Leapwork, where he has designed and implemented on-prem data centers with Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco routers and switches, and Cisco wireless controllers and APs. Puneet has also played a key role in shaping operational capabilities and defining network security strategy, driving implementation, innovation, and continuous improvement for the organization's network security services. In addition, Puneet has planned and built IT security frameworks from scratch, implemented security frameworks for user's end devices and cloud machines, and managed Azure infrastructure and implemented network security. He has designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, and routing, and implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models. Puneet's past experience includes working as a Sr. Security Engineer at TCS, where he worked on critical projects of upgrading code and implementing Palo Alto and Checkpoint firewalls and LTMs, GTMs hardware. He also managed escalation points for L3 SOC team, handled advanced designing, implementations, configuration, and troubleshooting on Firewalls, LTM and GTM across 5 Data centers. Puneet has also worked as a Technical Support Engineer - 2nd Line at BT, where he handled L2 issues related to Checkpoint firewall, Internet LBO, bluecoat proxy, and BIG IP F5 load balancer, for all over the globe markets and data center. Puneet holds an MBA-IT from Bharti Vidyapeeth School of Distance Education and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Rajasthan Technical University. His tech stack includes Azure, AWS, infra, and Ansible. With 8.62 years of relevant experience, Puneet is a skilled and technically proficient Security Consultant with multiple firewall solutions, network security, cyber security, and information security practices.