أحمد حسين, IT/Cybersecurity Solutions Manager

أحمد حسين

IT/Cybersecurity Solutions Manager

Franco Pinto Smart Solution LLC

البلد
الإمارات العربية المتحدة - أبو ظبي
التعليم
بكالوريوس, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
الخبرات
10 years, 4 أشهر

مشاركة سيرتي الذاتية

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الخبرة العملية

مجموع سنوات الخبرة :10 years, 4 أشهر

IT/Cybersecurity Solutions Manager في Franco Pinto Smart Solution LLC
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ يوليو 2021

• Carry out IT, Cybersecurity & Network Solutions for Corporate Banking Clients
• Support Sales & Marketing teams to provide guidance and knowledge regarding the Portfolio of the Cybersecurity products & manage & provide Consultancy to client
• Managing all Next-Generation firewall & UTMs (i.e., Fortigate, Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, Checkpoint, Gate Protect, Storm Shield, Cisco ASA, F5 LB ..etc.), Network Security, Endpoint security AV & EDR (i.e. ESET, Kaspersky), SIEM to monitor traffic behavior (i.e. FortiSIEM, SPLUNK, ArcSight), WAF to monitor the web traffic behavior and daily review the Overall Security Report and engage the concerned Top Management by the situation in the organization.
• Managing Oracle Cloud Security & applying the needed security measures and placing the appropriate controls & procedures to secure Tenancies, Compartments, VCNs, Compute Instances, Resources & Object Storages using IAM Policies, NSGs, SLs, FW, WAF, LBs, Patch & OS Mgt, Bastion, Cloud Guard, Data Safe, etc.
• Fully understand the legal requirements on IT governance and security, and implementing Physical, Technical & Administrative Security Controls.
• Evaluating risks and develops security standards, procedures, and controls to manage risks. Improves security positioning through process improvement, policy, automation, and the continuous evolution of capabilities.
• Assisting in forensic analysis and digital evidence collection to support investigations and legal proceedings.
• Implementing Cloud Security configurations using Vault, Cloud Guard, Security Advisor, SolarWinds HCO, Bastion, ..etc.
• Conducting Information systems auditing, monitoring, controlling, infrastructure assessment process underlying with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CIF, etc.
• Developing and implementing enterprise governance, risk, and compliance strategy and solutions
• Lead, plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and implementation of different organizational information systems and software applications.
• Work with the security team to perform tests and uncover network vulnerabilities
• Develop company-wide best practices for IT security
• Manage different IT vendors to ensure that services meet business needs.
• Recruit, lead and develop the team of professionals, provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to maximize their performance
• Creating a high-performing team by mentoring, coaching, and guiding team members on support procedures, best practices and job processes & monitoring performance using KPIs

IT Infrastructure Manager في Saudi Unicom Group
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • يناير 2018 إلى يونيو 2021

• Develop and implement information security standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Managing Firewalls, Routers, Switches, CUCM & Collaboration
• Managing IT infrastructure, innovate, monitor updates & trends on technology, plan ahead and develop contingency plans.
• Conduct counteractive protocols and report incidents and offer customized risk ratings for vulnerabilities based on company policies and maintain IT Cybersecurity solutions & workarounds documented.
• Implement Firewalls to prevent Cyber-attacks, and grant authorization to well-trained personnel and privileges to manage firewalls
• Support managers work with other management staff to determine and implement specific security needs and priorities of their processes.
• Develop infrastructure design and secure for business and IT initiatives, and provide subject matter expertise for strategy and standards development
• Responsible for managing the lifecycle of all the infrastructure software
• Respond to contract and general statement (Responsibility Matrix, RFP, RFI, RFQ…)
• Engaged with the customer’s Fault Management team in order to prevent problems that may occur in the future, and to find solution for the current problems.
• Ensure service delivery (including spare parts) to be delivered according to Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Training subordinate and management staff
• Providing guidance for problems and questions while heading the Ops & maintenance sections.
• Participating in business meetings
• Provides technical assistance or manages a project for efficient and economical business
• Designs and constructs Work Breakdown Schedules (WBS) to support programs, proposals and engineering projects.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction by quality on-time performance and best return for their investment.
• Provides status to upper management of project and approaches on solution to problems of the project.
• Researches, locates and qualifies subcontractors and team mates to provide needed services.

Sr. Infrastructure Security Engineer في Saudi Unicom Group
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • يناير 2017 إلى ديسمبر 2017

• Conduct threat and risk analysis and analyze the business impact of new and existing systems and technologies to eliminate risk, performance, and capacity issues. They implement vulnerability assessments and configure audits of operating systems, web servers, and databases and detect patterns, insecure features, and malicious activities in the infrastructure.
• Develop custom systems for specialized Cybersecurity features and procedures for software systems, networks, data centers, and hardware.
• Analyze customer’s need and explore business opportunities
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues and/or respond to outages
• Maintain reliability of security systems and networks by monitoring, running tests, and troubleshooting
• Test and perform upgrades and patches to installed operating systems and software
• Monitor backups and plans for installed systems
• Maintain familiarity of recovery plans for every critical function
• May install, configure, maintain, upgrade, and support systems, networks, and software
• May develop plans, schedules, and requirements for deployment of systems
• Prepare and conduct workshop, training, transfer knowledge session for customer
• Designing & Implementation for current operative systems within Infrastructure and external resources.
• Providing complete solutions regarding Infrastructure components.
• Responsible for designing and implementing improved process or operational policies.

IP Engineer في Vision Valley CO LTD
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • أبريل 2015 إلى ديسمبر 2016

• Assess client networks for vulnerabilities, and apply Cybersecurity threat assessment
• Determine security violations and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits
• Collect data on current security measures for risk analysis, and write systems status reports regularly
• Monitor constantly for attacks and run appropriate defensive protocols if a breach occurs
• Conduct testing to identify vulnerabilities, and collaborate with cybersecurity team to update defensive protocols when necessary
• Configure antivirus systems, firewalls, data centers, and software updates with a security-first mindset
• Upgrade our network and infrastructure systems
• Install new HW, systems & SW for network infrastructure
• Plan for DR, manage backups & restore, and plan for operations.
• Perform research, testing, evaluation, and deployment of Cybersecurity technology and procedures.
• Develop firewalls to secure the network infrastructure.
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization;
• Upgrading data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases;
• Configuring of routing and switching equipment;
• Configuring of hosted IP voice services;
• Remote support of on-site engineers and end users/customers during installation;
• Remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur upon initial installation;
• Speaking with customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture.

Network Support Engineer في Sudan University – West Campus Data Center
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • أغسطس 2014 إلى مارس 2015

• Positioned within the National Duty service.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and restore network, server, and client systems as outages occur or as needed on a daily basis.
• Installs new software releases and system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software conflicts. Perform application loading, troubleshooting, tuning and technical support for hardware and software.
• Performs tests, experiments, implementations, and system support of components and capabilities.

IT Technician في Ismail Industrial Workshop
  • السودان - الخرطوم
  • أبريل 2010 إلى أغسطس 2010

الخلفية التعليمية

بكالوريوس, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
  • في Sudan University Of Science And Technology
  • أغسطس 2014

Specialties & Skills

IT Technical Support
IT Infrastructure Management
Cyber Security
Network Security
IT Management
Firewall Security
Communication
Risk Assessment
Password Manager
ISO 27001
IT Governance
Juniper SRX Firewalls
Budget Planning
Strategic Planning
Vendor Management
IT Infrastructure Management
Datacenters Management
Routing & Switching
Project Management
Fortigate FortiMail FortiManager FortiSIEM FortiWeb FortiAnalyzer FortiSASE FortiProxy FortiSwitch
AntiVirus & EDR
Problem-solving
NIST Framework
ICT Solution
Product Management
Risk Management
Cyber Security
IT Infrastructure
Nintex for SharePoint
IPSec VPN & SSL VPN
SharePoint
NSE 1, 2, 3 ,4
Cisco ASA Firewall
VOIP & Video Conference
BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
HPE Servers, MSA Storages, Fiber Switches
VMware vSphere, vCenter, Fusion
ManageEngine
SolarWinds HCO
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Office
OLAs, SLAs, Technical Proposals, Presentations
Awareness Manager Tools
L2 & L3 Networking
SOAR Technology
PCI Standards

اللغات

العربية
اللغة الأم
الانجليزية
متمرّس

التدريب و الشهادات

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Professional Certified (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2023
Fundamentals of Cyber Risk Management Public Version (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Federal Virtual Training Environment
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2023
المدة:
6 ساعات
Foundations of Cybersecurity for Managers (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Federal Virtual Training Environment
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2023
المدة:
8 ساعات
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2023
صالحة لغاية:
June 2024
Oracle Cloud Data Management 2023 Certified Foundations Associate (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2023
صالحة لغاية:
June 2024
Fortinet NSE-7 SD-WAN 7.0 Self-Paced (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
Fortinet NSE-5 FortiManager 7.2 (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
FortiNet NSE-4 Security Training (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
FortiNet NSE-4 Infrastructure Training (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
CCNA (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Kiwi Training Center
تاريخ الدورة:
December 2014
المدة:
96 ساعة
ITIL (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Kiwi Training Center
تاريخ الدورة:
December 2016
المدة:
20 ساعة
Strategic Planning (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
HPE Life e-Learning
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2020
المدة:
8 ساعات
Fortigate Systems - II (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
تاريخ الدورة:
November 2015
المدة:
24 ساعة
Fortigate Systems - I (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Fortinet
تاريخ الدورة:
November 2015
المدة:
24 ساعة
Hybrid Cloud Observability Boot Camp (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
SolarWinds
تاريخ الدورة:
April 2023
المدة:
36 ساعة
Fortinet NSE 3 (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
July 2022
صالحة لغاية:
July 2024
Fortinet NSE 2 (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
April 2020
صالحة لغاية:
April 2022
Fortinet NSE 1 (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
April 2020
صالحة لغاية:
April 2022
Nintex Certified Practitioner (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
May 2022
صالحة لغاية:
May 2024

الهوايات

  • Rubik's Cube
  • Watching Movies
  • Reading