Fatih AKSAY

Senior Network Security Engineer | FCSS | NSE7 | NSE6

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Senior Network Security Engineer at Destel Bilişim Çözümleri A.Ş.
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Providing Network Security consultancy and leading technically complex security projects for industry-leading organizations under maintenance contracts, including banks and e-commerce companies. Hands-on expertise in design, implementation, optimization, and troubleshooting of FortiGate, FortiSandbox, FortiEMS, FortiMail, FortiWeb, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, OpinNate, and F5 solutions.

  • Senior Network & Network Security Consultant at GlassHouse
    Jan 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

    *Providing Network and Network Security support and delivering security projects for industry-leading organizations within GlassHouse, including banks, payment institutions, retail, and energy sectors. *Managing and operating 3 GlassHouse data centers (Istanbul and Ankara) hosting enterprise customers. *Designing, delivering, and operating service-based security solutions, including Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), WAF as a Service, Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). *Leading the deployment, management, and optimization of Network and Network Security solutions. Hands-on expertise with FortiGate, Palo Alto, Check Point, Citrix NetScaler, FortiADC, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, FortiEMS, FortiSIEM, FortiNAC, Forcepoint, Zabbix, PRTG, IPAM, Extreme Networks, Aruba, Dell, Cisco, and NVIDIA technologies

  • Senior Network & Network Security Specialist at YILDIRIM Group of Companies
    Feb 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

    *Providing Network and Network Security support and leading infrastructure projects for more than 20 companies within Yıldırım Group across multiple regions, including Turkey, the United States, Belgium, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Russia, Kosovo, and Albania. *Managing regional data centers located in Turkey, Albania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Dallas. *Operating and maintaining 100+ enterprise firewalls, including FortiGate and Juniper platforms. *Managing and supporting 1,500+ network switches across multi-vendor environments, including Cisco, Dell, Extreme Networks, Aruba, Juniper, Fortinet, Ruijie, Moxo, and Microsense. *Managing and optimizing 500+ wireless access points across Cisco, Aruba, Ruckus, UniFi, Fortinet, and Extreme Networks infrastructures. *Administering 15+ Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), including Cisco, Aruba, Ruckus, UniFi, and Extreme platforms. *Designing, deploying, and managing Network and Network Security solutions, including SD-WAN (Silver Peak), FortiManager, FortiADC, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, FortiEMS, Cisco ISE, Cisco Prime, Windows NPS, and PRTG

  • Network & Network Security Specialist at Rahi Systems
    Dec 2020 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    *Providing consultancy services and delivering tailored network and security solutions for industry-leading organizations under maintenance contracts. *Designing and deploying technological infrastructures for projects, including device installation, configuration, and commissioning. *Planning, preparing, and executing Proof of Concept (PoC) processes to validate proposed architectures and solutions. *Hands-on experience with 128 Technology (128T) SD-WAN, ZPE Console Management, Cisco ISE, Cisco Duo, Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls, Zabbix, PRTG, SureLog SIEM, Juniper Networks, Cambium Networks, NetApp, Citrix, and VMware platforms.

  • Network and System Specialist at Bilfa Bilgi Sistemleri ve Danışmanık TİC. LTD. ŞTİ
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    *Providing Network and Systems consultancy services and delivering tailored solutions for industry-leading organizations under maintenance contracts. *Assessing, designing, and preparing technology infrastructures in compliance with KVKK (Turkish Data Protection Law) and GDPR requirements. *Reviewing existing project architectures, proposing appropriate technological solutions, and leading installation and implementation activities. *Planning, preparing, and executing Proof of Concept (PoC) processes. *Hands-on experience with Sophos, SonicWall, Fortinet, Cisco, Ruijie, Ruckus, Aruba, SolarWinds, PRTG, ESET, McAfee, and VMware technologies.