Highly technical skilled networking security architect with very good communication towards customers and to technical teams. Simon is customer oriented and always try to find the best architecture when working as Sales Engineer. He also has very good experience with network automation (python) and developed different web applications with Laravel such as: CMDB and CMS.
Prisma Cloud Solutions Architect at Palo Alto Networks
September 2021
Presales activities
Public Cloud Enterprise Architect at NRB
July 2019
Create reference architectures on Azure, AWS and GCP. Design, develop, and implement highly scalable secure software solutions. Evaluate current technologies (such as kubernetes), concepts, designs, and provide new recommendations.
Team Lead Network & Network Security at NRB
January 2017
Management: tasks follow-up with team members (20 persons), manage priorities, define and share strategic vision, welcome new comers and follow-up technologies with constructors and partners.
Driving big projects inside the network team such as renew current network infrastructure with new technologies like Cisco ACI (CISCO SDN), Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 Loadbalancers, Splunk (log correlation). Investigate end-point solutions in order to implement new behavior antivirus and data leakage prevention.
Private cloud development using python scripts to manage our API driven network devices. Implementation of flask to present those API to orchestrator.
Team lead & Network Security Designer at Engie/GDF Suez
January 2009
Management: tasks follow-up with team members (7 persons), manage priorities, communicate strategic vision, welcome new comers and follow-up technologies with constructors and partners.
Working on projects which includes several technologies (Check Point, Juniper, PaloAlto, F5, Bluecoat, RSA, and Cisco).
One of the most important project was to build an internet access infrastructure for 60.000 employees.
Network Security Engineer at BNP Paribas Fortis Bank.
September 2007
Management of proxies, firewalls and loadbalancers.
Management of Internet access for all international sites.
Migration of Fortis Bank Frankfürt on complete new infrasctruture.
Development of scripts using perl and expect to launch set of commands on security devices.