Ahmed Omar, Senior Information Security Specialist

Ahmed Omar

Senior Information Security Specialist

Saudi Business Machines

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Experience
15 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months

Senior Information Security Specialist at Saudi Business Machines
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2020

Provide technical solution required to address customer requirements, and recommends solutions that optimize value for the customer

Security Consultant at Al Moammar Information Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2019 to October 2020

Design, document, implement and manage security controls to mitigate risks to business information assets

Responsibilities:
Designing/Implementing Paloalto Solutions
Designing/Implementing FireEye NX, FX
Designing/Implementing Cisco Threat-GRID and familiar with API Integration
Designing/Implementing Tenable Vulnerability Solution
Designing/Implementing Cisco ACI Solution
Acting as Technical Lead for MIS Strategic Project to handle internal and External
Resource that working on Different technology to deliver the project as Customer
Expected
Designing/Implementing Cisco Firewall/IPS Solution
Involving on Cortex XDR Projects

Senior Network Security Engineer at Ministry of Commerce and Investment
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2017 to October 2019

Formulate Information Security Polices
Internal Network Security Audit
Build and Implement Security Baseline for More Than 90 Site include Routers and
switches
Managing security Products Firewalls, Proxy, F5 LTM, ASM
Fine-tuning DC Firewall Rules

Senior Network Security Engineer at Tatweer Co. for Educational Services
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2014 to October 2017

Managing security Product: PaloAlto, Stonesoft, F5.
Internal Network Security Audit
Perform on-site and remote security consulting
Manage vulnerabilities within the information processing infrastructure, and provide
periodic reporting on security issues.
Redesign Infrastructure for Tatweer Data Center to Top-of-Rack Design.

Senior Network Security Engineer at Netway
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to October 2014

• Technical lead duties and management of technical projects
• Designing and implementing customers’ network infrastructure
• Configuring and implementing Remote Access Solution: IPsec VPN, , and SSL VPN.
• Configuring Pix to Pix, ASA to ASA and Router to Router VPN
• Implementation of HSRP (using IP SLA) and GLBP
• Configuring VLANs, VTP, Etherchannels
• Configuring inter-Vlan routing on Layer-3 switches
• Securing switch access.
• Designing and implementing wireless architectures (Cisco Aironet APs and Cisco 4400 series controllers).
• Install & Management Cisco Call Manager “4.2-9” and CME
• Install & Configure E1, FXO and FXS Cards in Cisco Routers
• Integrate CUCM With other Systems Asterisk, MCU, etc,
• Configure Dial peers in Cisco Routers
• Install and Manage Voice Mail, Auto attendant by Cisco Unity Express.
• Building, manage & edit in IPCC scripts.
• Configuring Voice VLANS and QoS VLANs.
• Configuring routing using OSPF and policy routing using route maps.
• Hardening Cisco devices - Implementing IDS and IPS, Cisco IOS Firewall, AAA.
• Implementing traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, and Route Maps
• Building and maintaining Visio documentations for Clients

Education

Bachelor's degree, MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
  • at Higher institute of computer science and information technology
  • January 2009

Specialties & Skills

Network Security
Firewalls
Routing and Switching
FireEye
Cisco SDN | ACI
Tenable Vulnerability Scanner
Cisco Sandbox | Threat-GRID
Paloalto NGFW
Cisco Firewall/IPS
Bluecoat
StormSheild NGFW
Authlogics

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

CEH MASTER (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2020
Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2021
Certificate CCIE R&S “written” (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2019
Valid Until:
April 2021
RHCE (Training)
Training Institute:
Private Course
Date Attended:
March 2009
Certificate FireEye System Engineer (FSE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
December 2022
Certificate Cisco Customer Success Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
December 2021
PaloAlto Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016
Certificate for completing class Cisco ACI Test Drive ACI-TD (Training)
Training Institute:
Firfly Cisco
Date Attended:
November 2016
Duration:
16 hours
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Valid Until:
July 2007
Certified NETASQ Administrator Unified Threat Management (CNA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2011
Valid Until:
August 2011