Senior Network & Security Engineer
3 Unicorns General Trading Company
Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months
(Connecting all branch offices to centralize infrastructure of all the subsidiaries of the company in Kuwait London Pakistan & Afghanistan while keeping the Network Secure)
• Provided network configuration and troubleshooting support on multiple client projects
• Installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of routing technologies including EIGRP OSPF & BGP
• Configured routers for establishing connectivity with ISPs in area gateways
• LAN switching technologies including Switching Protocol and technologies including VLANs, Inter-VLAN
• Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP, and TRUNKING, L2 and L3 ETHER-CHANNEL protocol like LACP & Pagp.
• Providing support to level 2 engineers to troubleshoot networking issues.
• Security technologies including IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, and Juniper Firewall.
• Network Monitoring using SolarWinds Orion, Open NMS etc.
• Build and maintain Visio documentations for Clients
• Gather and collate network requirements by working with clients and colleagues.
• Manage IT Team consists of Developer DB Admin Network & Security engineers.
• Design & Implementation of Network Security solutions using Juniper Firewalls.
• Securing Networks and Remote Access by using encryption via Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN tunnels firewalls.
• Ensuring high availability using HSRP protocols on Cisco Multilayer Switches, Routers and NSRP on Juniper Firewalls.
• Mitigate threats to Routers and networks by securing network management using ACLs, SSH.
• Auditing traffic, analyzing and archiving logs from enterprise wide security devices using Manage engine Firewall Analyzer.
• Establish and perform maintenance programs following company and vendor standards
• Network troubleshooting using Wireshark, ping, telnet and traceroute.
• Setting up IT Request procedure and implementing in our school system.
• Attendances system based on bio-Metrix without any support form 3 party
• IT Order 2013 & 2014 keeping in mind the minimum budget and coast effectiveness.
• POS implementation in both the schools.
• WCBS Server Design Configuration and Implementation in both the schools.
• Implementation of CCTV Cameras and with minimum cameras in reference to MOE requirements.
• Emails were never setup, staff was using there personal emails we made the new emails / Groups and Announcement Emails and have forced them to use company mail
• Websites were designed from scratch and are operational for schools and HO.
• Develop and manage school’s budget, successfully administering all purchasing processes and maintaining accurate records of financial transactions
• Maintain all school data systems, tracking all employee and student records, school schedules, and supply and asset inventories
• Maintain direct communication with school’s leadership team (including school principal and deans), information technology staff, and all maintenance, construction, and planning teams
QualityNet
Senior Network & Security Administrator, QualityNet. - Kuwait April 2010 - March 2013
• Administrate the network having more than 300 users, having more than 47 high-availability production servers and 3 remote locations ensuring uptime. Investigate user and network problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions.
• Manages network operations to include: troubleshooting connectivity problems; installing & maintaining routers, firewalls and switches. Performs routine preventive maintenance on hardware and software.
• Document network problems and resolutions for future reference.
• Recommend changes to improve network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes.
• Design & Implementation of Network Security solutions using Juniper Firewalls.
• Securing Networks and Remote Access by using encryption via Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN tunnels firewalls.
• Ensuring high availability using HSRP protocols on Cisco Multilayer Switches, Routers and NSRP on Juniper Firewalls.
• Mitigate threats to Routers and networks by securing network management using ACLs, SSH.
• Auditing traffic, analyzing and archiving logs from enterprise wide security devices using Manageengine Firewall Analyzer.
• Establish and perform maintenance programs following company and vendor standards.
• Monitor network performance using the OPmanager NPM along with NCM and IPSLA to determine whether adjustments need to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in the future
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to the information being processed, stored or accessed by the network.
• Implementing and managing Websense Software for securing and filtering enterprise wide Web traffic
Wazzan Group
I have joined Wazzan Group as System & Network Engineer. From 15TH Agust 2010 till March 22 2010. Al Wazzan Holdings acts as an umbrella under which the various companies can operate successfully, Its Business Include Health Care, Construction Retail & Distribution Education, Real Estate and Investment. My Responsibilities are
✓ Enterprise Network Design and Planning
✓ Administering IIS, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, Web, Domain Controller Servers
✓ Network Security Administration using Juniper and Symantec Firewall
✓ Installing and Configuring Network Devices: Cisco, Wireless Access Points, Switches, and Repeaters.
Tawasul Telecom
I have joined Tawasul Telecom as NOC / ITOC Engineer. September 2 2007 till 14 August 2009 Tawasul Telecom Is a service provider company; we are providing MPLS Back bone to entire gulf. My Responsibilities are
• Responsible for monitoring the network and systems responding to outages, and working closely with other Network Operations Centers and telecommunications providers to debug and diagnose network problems.
• Responsible to configure network devices and systems/servers in HP Open View and Nagios in order to monitor them.
• Assisting core network team and datacenter team in their task of maintaining the company's network and datacenter.
• Coordination of planned interventions on the operational network, ensuring they are all carried out in a controlled timely manner with minimum service downtime.
• Administering HP Open View Service Desk / OpenView Operations / Network Node Manager / OpenView Performance Insight.
• Responsible for gathering traffic statistic information, traffic consumption for each POP, and providing an overview of the company's overall upstream transit capacity.
• Technical liaison with other departments and partners involved in the delivery of service, to improve performance and resolve service downtime and network problems.
• Analysis of data from the network management systems for traffic and performance statistics and production of management reports
HumanSoft Kuwait
Working in HumanSoft KUWAIT as Technical Support from January 17 2005 and then was appraised to Assistant Network Administrator till August 29 2007 my responsibilities preparing classes, supporting staff and backup to the network administrator I have worked as network administrator for 2 months in Fahaheel branch when network administrator was on leave. My responsibilities were
• Duties included LAN/WAN daily operations.
• Router & switch configurations - maintained router and switch configurations, updated and changed configurations depending on corporate requirements.
• Designed, implemented and maintained Juniper based network security infrastructure.
• Maintaining and 24/7 Monitoring of the IT Infrastructure based on approx 200 clients (Windows XP) and Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition.
• Performed installations, technical support, troubleshooting and maintenance of network equipment, installed and upgraded software and hardware equipment.
❑ BSc Telecommunication Engineering. (Radio Frequency) University of The Punjab Lahore, Pakistan (2001-2004)
❑ HSSC (Higher Secondary School Certificate) from Pakistan School and College, Mangaf, Kuwait (1999-2001)
❑ SSC (Secondary School Certificate) from Pakistan School and College, Mangaf, Kuwait (1997-1999)