waqar ali, Senior Security Consultant

waqar ali

Senior Security Consultant

NCR Corporation

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Networking
Experience
17 years, 8 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 8 months

Senior Security Consultant at NCR Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2017

• Technical Consultant for Design, Documentation and Implementation of Network/Security Projects & post implementation support for variety of Clients in Dubai.
• Buildup & maintain relationship with key accounts, gather technical requirements and design feasible solutions for the clients.
• Handling web and network security controls, intrusion prevention, network traffic analysis, cryptography and encryption.
• Working mainly with the vendors like Cisco Systems (Firewalls, IPS, ISE, NEXUS, ACI), Fortinet (Firewalls, IPS), Citrix (Netscaler, Web Application Firewall), F5, Huawei (Switches, Firewalls, IPS), HP (Switches, SIEM) and Solarwinds.
• Experienced in a service-based (ITIL) IT service delivery and support system i.e. Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Configuration Management. Hands-on products like ManageEngine Service Desk, AutoTask and SANAD.
• Oversee network/systems security audits, analyze risks and develop response procedures.
• Analyze the performance monitoring of mission critical network devices with real time alarming of network faults and trending of faults and escalation.
• Working closely with operations, support, business and vendors to schedule down time for system upgrades and maintenance tasks.
• Technical support & escalation lead for Tier 3 Network/Security issues being escalated from support engineers.
• Provide product training to lower Tiered support and act as a mentor to junior technical support engineers.

Senior Network and Security Consultant(Lead- Cloud & Managed Services) at Emirates Technology Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2015 to February 2017

• Design and Implementation of Network/Security Projects & post implementation support.
• Provide project knowledge transfer and training to junior support engineers for post implementation support.
• Working mainly with the vendors like Cisco Systems, Fortinet, F5, Brocade, Huawei, HP, Solarwinds and AlienVault USM.
• Working closely with Account Managers and customers to resolve complex issues and provide technical action plans.
• Technical support lead & escalation point for Tier 3 TSE issues being escalated from lower Tier’s support staff.
• Oversee Level -1 and level-2 Technical Support Engineers, who proactively monitor/support customers network remotely 24*7 in Emitac’s Managed NOC.
• Manual and automatic ticket logging with accurate ticket classification, ticket assignment and ticket resolution in order to meet the committed SLA and avoid escalations using Manage Engine Service Desk Plus IT help desk software
• Analyze product log files, crash dumps, network traces, etc. to provide root cause analysis (RCA).
• Streamline and clarify active issues by associating bugs with existing bugs, finding duplicate issues, helping uphold proper reporting/escalation/closure processes for customer issues
• Review and analyze all support cases older than 30/60/90 days and drive resolution.
• Create and maintain utilities and documentation, and participate in internal communications to answer questions from the Support team, including tracking those questions to ensure they are answered in a timely fashion.
• Provide product training to lower Tiered support and act as a mentor to junior technical support engineers.

Network Security Engineer at Almoayyed Computers
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • September 2011 to June 2015

JOB ROLE ( SUPPORT/PROJECT ENGINEER FOR ALMOAYYED CORPORATE CLIENTS):
• Designing Networks based on Customer Requirements.
• Implementing Network and Security related projects majorly on Cisco Systems and HP.
• Draft Security Policies and Procedures.
• Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting of LAN and WAN components.
• Major Projects I have worked on:
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Customer: CIO Bahrain ( Centeral Informatics Organization)
Project: Two factor authentication using Common access cards & PKI
Job Role: Lead Engineer & Cisco Security Consultant.
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Customer: Hidd Power Company Bahrain.
Project: CISCO ISE IMPLEMENTATION.
Job Role: Lead Engineer
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Customer: Ministry of Housing Bahrain.
Project: CISCO ISE IMPLEMENTATION.
Job Role: Lead Engineer
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Customer: Ithmaar Bank Bahrain
Project: WAN Redesign With DMVPN Dual Hub Dual Cloud
Job Role: Design and Lead Engineer
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Customer: KPMG Bahrain
Project: HO IT Network And Security Infrastructure
Job Role: Design and Lead Engineer
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Customer: National Bank Of Bahrain
Project: LAN Network Upgradation
Job Role: Design and Lead Engineer
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Customer: Solidarity
Project: Solidarity infrastructure Design
Job Role: Team Member Assisting on R&S and Security
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Customer: First Energy Bank
Project: IT Infrastructure Setup
Job Role: Team Member
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Customer: CIO Bahrain
Projects:
1- Worked on GETVPN for CIO Bahrain MPLS cloud.
2- Supporting existing NEXUS infrastructure in data center.
3- Worked on Cisco ISE 1.2 to support a complete PKI Infrastructure for WIRED, WIRELESS, BYOD and Remote Access VPN (SSL ANYCONNECT CLIENT) services.

Network Manager at Information Technology Department Government of Sindh
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2008 to June 2011

- Managing head office of 1000+ nodes with 15 branch offices (remote sites) in different
parts of the province.
- Managing and training a team of Admins and support technicians about the Systems and
formulating their day to day activities.
- Looking over the help desk calls entertained, severity/nature of the problem and its cause.
- Reviewing the reports about systems health check submitted by network technicians and
system admin on weekly basis.
- Evaluates and implements Network Management tools to monitor/evaluate network
performance.
- Analyzes network elements and designs to ensure optimal network performance is
achieved.
- Provides technical network expertise to both internal and external customers.
- Oversees the support of daily network communications implemenations including
LAN/WAN, load balancing and firewall operations.
- Oversees and implements firewall rules and routes as needed.
- Analyzes local and wide area network systems, including planning, designing,
Evaluation, selecting operating systems and protocol suites and configuring
communication.
- Works tickets, attends meetings and required bridge troubleshooting calls with support
teams.
- Works with a centralized NOC and Telco vendors to resolve and restore services as
quickly as possible.
- Updates Visio diagrams, supports change control and procedures along with attending
problem management and project meetings as required.
- Implementing Vlans and configuring Inter-Vlan Routing on 6500 L3 core Switch with
FWSM (6509E) and 2960 switches.
- Managed and configured IPS Module 4215, 4240, Routers ISR G1 3825, AS 5300, PIX 515E
later on upgraded to ASA 5520 security appliance.
- Managed Branches and head office connectivity over DMVPN Dual Hub Single Cloud
and Eigrp as igp.
Operating Systems:
- SunSolaris 10& Linux Debian :
(Apache, DNS, Ftp, Squid, Samba, NFS, Package Management & etc.)
- Windows Server 2003 :
Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft ISA Server, Routing and Remote Access Server &
IIS Server

Network Engineer (NOC) at Fariya Networks
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 2006 to February 2008

- Worked with a team of seasoned ISP professionals for monitoring and maintaining NGN MPLS/IP network.
- Worked with the team to implement NGN MPLS/IP network from backbone to access.
- Implementing residential VoIP and internet services. Business L2VPN and L3VPN services.
- MP-BGP configuration with BGP community based traffic control.
- Worked in a team to design and implement WAN, LAN for government, educational and cooperate projects.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Networking
  • at Sir Syed University Of Engineering and Technology
  • March 2006

Specialties & Skills

Sourcefire
MPLS ( MP-BGP, MPLS-TE, fast reroute, link protection, l2vpn, l3vpn)
Security ( IPS, sourcefire, ISE, ASA)
SWITCHING ( STP, fabricpath, VPC+, etherchannel, VSS, VTP )
Data Center ( nexus 7010, 5548, 2k, 1000v, asa100v, vsg and UCS)
Routing Protocols BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP & RIP
Wireless ( WLC, lightweight access point)

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified F5 Administrator - 201 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Valid Until:
March 2017
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
November 2016
Cisco IronPort Certified Security Professional - Web (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2015
CCIE-SP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Valid Until:
March 2016
Cisco Firewall Security Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
November 2016
HP Accredited Integration Specialist (HP-AIS). (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
CCNA Routing and Switching (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
November 2016
Cisco Identity Services Engine System Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
May 2014
CCNP Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
November 2016
Cisco IPS Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
November 2016
Cisco IronPort Certified Security Associate - Web (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2015