AHMED ABOWALLY, IT network security senior engineer

AHMED ABOWALLY

IT network security senior engineer

We - Telecom Egypt

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering
Experience
6 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 5 Months

IT network security senior engineer at We - Telecom Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since February 2022

- Handling POC and technical implementation with our partners.
- manage Next-generation IPS (Trend Micro™ Tipping Point™)
- Update our IPS with the latest digital vaccine to be protected against vulnerabilities.
- Ensure that junior engineers fulfill our SLA during solving daily problems.
- Assist the end user, other IT professionals, and external customers in requesting security variances
and implementation of subsequent configuration change requests.
- Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, defining and monitoring access.
- Day-to-day administration of Firewalls (Palo alto, fortigate, juniper srx, forcepoint )
- Strong awareness of f5 WAF (creating policies, tune & learning, publishing &troubleshoot after
publishing)
- Day-to-day administration of pulse secure, endpoint protection trend-micro, Web Proxy and mail
security devices
- Manage and prioritize multiple assigned tasks to meet established deadlines.
- Coordinate with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
- Provide advanced level advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues.

IT network security engineer at We - Telecom Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2020 to January 2022

- Handling the whole security system using different platforms ( Juniper, Fortigate, F5 WAF, Arbor, Palo
Alto...)
- Pulse secure VPN solution, we deal with daily ssl VPN problems for users working remotely as VPN, set
login Pages, monitor issues, set permanent & temp users using expressions.
- Design, plan and implement network security structure
- Ensure a secured network overseas between different HQs and hundreds of branches.- Configuring and maintaining security polices, routing, ipsec vpn tunnels
- Provide guidance and solution for routine problems or queries to ensure problem resolution with
specified time.
- Upgraded software versions of many boxes & migrated differences vendor boxes vise verse
- Check & tune polices from time to time: using solution ex : Firemon, or Manually to decrease security
vulnerabilities .
- TrendMicro: Add, activate, update many servers to AV and make policies to scan servers.
- Provide monitoring of the systems to ensure smooth operations.
- Handling planned and unplanned outage related to corporate network security devices.
- Managing and implementing the day-to-day Network & Application Security operations.
- Evaluating new systems, components, products ... etc. for security protection.
- Provide advice and support to different business units to ensure the best use of technological
capabilities.

IT network engineer at WE data at We - Telecom Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2018 to February 2020

- Maintenance and troubleshooting of the internal corporate network (HQs and branches)
- Participating in designing new environments connected to the corporate network, providing
further maintenance.
- Configuring and troubleshooting all network devices (Cisco, Juniper, F5 LTM)
- Automating gathering information from network devices (serials, configurations) for the sake
of documentation and inventory.
- Participating in receiving customer network requirements suitable for their project needs.
- Participating in designing customer environments hosted in corporate Data Centers fulfilling
the customer requirements.
- Configuring network devices to achieve the customers’ requirements while taking in
consideration the capacity and availability of our devices (Routers, Switches, F5 LTM).
- Supporting and remotely supporting the customer environments, troubleshooting network
problems providing Solutions within minimum time considering customers projects criticality.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronic Engineering
  • at Menofia University
  • July 2017

Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menofia University

Specialties & Skills

Computer Networks
Computer Skills
SSL VPN
Firewalls
Network Security
TrendMicro
DSM Deep Security Manager
firewalls
FortiMail

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Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

F5 Certified! Technical Specialist, BIG-IP ASM (F5-CTS, BIG-IP ASM) (Certificate)
CCNP Routing (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco
CCNP Switching (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco
DSM Deep Security Manager (Training)
Training Institute:
TrendMicro
PCS: pulse connect secure (official training) (Training)
Training Institute:
pulse connect secure
NSE4 Fortinet (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2022
Valid Until:
December 2024
TrendMicro TippingPoint 1.0 Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2023
Valid Until:
March 2025
Cisco certified specialist –security core (certified ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2023
Valid Until:
May 2026
Fortinet NSE 6 - FortiMail 6.4 ( certified ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2023
Valid Until:
April 2025
PCNSE Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer ( certified ) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
August 2022
F5 ASM : F5 Application Security Manage (Training)
Training Institute:
F5
F5 201 Tmos Administration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2023
Valid Until:
August 2025
F5 101 application delivery fundamental (Training)
Training Institute:
F5

Hobbies

  • Listening To Music