Aashiq Mir, Sr.Infrastructure Engineer

Aashiq Mir

Sr.Infrastructure Engineer

PureCs

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
13 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months

Sr.Infrastructure Engineer at PureCs
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2021

Performed the role as Infrastructure Engineer.
Key Project: - Riayati is a state-of-the-art platform designed to improve patient healthcare experience
in the UAE through a centralized and integrated healthcare system. The initiative aims to increase
accessibility to patient health data in the UAE by connecting public and private healthcare facilities and
facilitating exchange.
Key Responsibilities: -
• Implementing secure data centers and maintaining secure connectivity for various critical government
entities or facilities connected to the Network.
• Implementing end to end UAE National health information infrastructure, integrating private and public
healthcare entities across the nation.
• Securing and implementing technologies aligned with customer requirements and approved controls,
including Next-Generation Firewalls \[Palo-alto, Fortinet\], and WAF.
• Focused on network and security projects, creating design documents such as HLD, LLD, NRFU.
Handling day-to-day of Incidents and service requests and closing cases to meet SLAs.
• Implementing & upgrading various network components mitigate vulnerabilities and ensure compliance
with data center standards.
• Collaborating with professional services teams from Palot Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Dell, red hat, Microsoft, and
VMware in implementation.
• Planning for Cisco ACI implementation as per the requirement.
• Involved in the design and implementation of Cisco Nexus and ISR for layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies (VPC,
VRF).
• Performance tuning and monitoring, as well as firmware upgrades as required.
• Handling day-to-day incidents and service requests and closing the cases to meet SLAs.

Network And Systems Administrator at Purehealth
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2018 to February 2021

Performed the role as Network and Infrastructure Engineer.
Purehealth, which operates and manages the largest network of hospitals, Clinics, and laboratories in
the UAE region.
Key Responsibilities: -
• Handling the entire security infrastructure from endpoint to perimeter, based on regulations,
procedures, policies, and threat centered security aligned with business function.
• Identifying risks and loopholes in network security, highlighting them to management and
implementing changes to lower the risk to acceptable levels.
• Performing qualitative risk analysis and presenting findings to management to provide insights into
vulnerabilities and threats.
• Communicating network security requirements with colleagues.
• Applying new information and techniques enhance security strategies.
• Identifying potential problems and brainstorming solutions.
• Managing monitoring the ESX/ESXi servers and virtual servers over VM Infrastructure.
• Providing daily operational support for core network infrastructure.
• Managing the corporate firewall (FortiGate, Palo Alto)
• Handling the Email Gateway (Mime cast)
• Configuring Cisco Routers, Switches.
• Working with vendor devices such as Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco.
• Working on endpoint to perimeter breach detection through log analysis and correlation.
• Collaborating with professional services teams from Fortinet, Westcon middle east, CADD Emirates,
CADD gulf and Strong roots in implementing FortiGate, Palo Alto and Disaster Recovery.
• Implementing & upgrading Firewall security policies as per company requirements.
• Configuring wireless access points to provide wireless access to the users within the company premises.
Key Project: - Covid-19 Project: -
• Involved in Network and Security projects, including creating design documents for end-to-end
network and security setups at Covid-19 sites.
• Designing and implementing and maintaining secure connectivity for various sites.
• Accountable for the installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting & administration of
LAN/WAN and security systems.
• Leading projects to ensure successful outcome.
• Technically validating solutions proposed to ensure deliverable and clearly technical aspects before
contract signature. Accepting technical ownership of the solution at the point of contract signature.

Network engineer at Sedar Decor company
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • March 2013 to October 2018

Performed the role as Network Engineer. Key
Responsibilities: -
• Maintain the entire security posture of the client from endpoint to perimeter.
• Recommended security improvements based on observations in the network security posture and
changing threat landscape.
• Work as a trusted security advisor.
• Interacted with different vendors to understand required solutions and mapped them with
requirements.
• Managed customer security infrastructure using protection from vendors such as SonicWALL,
Kaspersky Protection.
• Reviewed solutions and design, providing recommendations based on required security posturing.

Network engineer at Netwotxx
  • India - Delhi
  • January 2011 to August 2012

Key Responsibilities: -
• Responsible for delivering course instruction for Cisco's CCNA, CCNP-R&S, CCNA-Security, CCNP-
Security, and IP Services documentations.
• Accountable for the installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting & administration of
LAN/WAN and security systems.
• Managed and administered the installation, up gradation, configuring, scheduling, testing &
troubleshooting of NAT devices, connectivity, and backup connectivity (IP SLA) to the respective
exchanges and installation of IPS sensors at endpoints.
• Made design/implementation recommendations for improvements, installed network routers,
switches, cabling and firewalls and handled issues such redundant internet connectivity (HSRP/VRRP).
• Responsible for network management (SNMP, syslog) including network performance tuning and
security monitoring.
• Handled remote site technical queries and provided solutions for VPN connectivity at remote sites.
• Tested IPsec and SSL VPN, ASA firewall and protocols such as NAT, DHCP, DNS, and OSPF.
• Responsible for design, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of virtualized servers, routers and
switches and firewalls, intrusion detection systems, VPN specific devices
• Worked with number of interns and engineering students from leading colleges in India, assisting
them with their networking projects.

Network engineer at netmetric
  • India
  • September 2010 to July 2011

Trained competence in Networking, Ccna, Ccnp Network Security engineer etc. From Net metric solution Fzc, Srinagar.
Comprehensive knowledge in Running Routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP (Ver1, Ver2).Securing access using Access-Control Lists, Knowledge in performing NAT and NAT Overload (PAT), HSRP etc.
Significant hold on switching in a Multi-Vlan environment, using technologies like STP MSTP, INTER Vlan Routing Ether channels, Storm-control, dot1x port-control etc.
Cisco ASA 5510 Cisco IPS, Cisco Secure ACS.
Router (3600, 7200 Series) and Switch (CAT 3500, 3550, 3750) security with technologies like Zone-based firewall, NBAR, etc.
VPN'S, IPSEC, GET-VPN, DM-VPN, ESAY-VPN, SSL-VPN, HEARPINING, MPLS etc”.
And various other security devices. Full competence in establishing Encrypted

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at IMTS
  • August 2015

Specialties & Skills

Backup Solutions
Virtualization
Servers
Network Security
Networking
Systems

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

cisco certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2009
Valid Until:
August 2010

Hobbies

  • Reading