Network and Security Manager
Gemini Holding
Total years of experience :16 years, 1 Months
- Enhance the architecture of the network and security to meet the latest threats
- Maintain and increase the level of security applied through applying security controls
- handling security incidents through policies and procedures
- handling business projects with other departments
- handling the budget and purchasing process
- set a vision and objects to the team to meet with the business vision
- the ability to have new ideas for applying security elements
- Hacking techniques and penetration test skills to ensure applying the security controls in an effective way
- Review the security design and production for the HQ and Subsidiaries
- Testing the security rules applied using my exploitation skills
- Applying Security on new applications for the business
- Supervise Network and Security implementations for new companies
- Increase my security Knowledge by courses (CISSP - CEH 8)
- Increase my Business knowledge by update technology meetings with the Vendors
About the IT team in the Company
Basically consists of (Network and Security Engineer, System Engineer, Voice Engineer, Help-desk)
All the team was specialized in establishing datacenters and offices for the company around the world,
Also working as a consultant for the sister companies to build their infrastructure regarding the business needs and the employee’s requirements.
Supervise for the implementation of the new projects around the world regarding IT standards.
Evaluating and supervise the Disaster recovery solution including Cloud systems.
Participated in designing the new protected DataCenter for Gemini Holding Headquarter
Regarding the International Standards.
Supervised the implementation of the protected HQ DataCenter Regarding the High Availability for all items.
Responsible for management of the production network/communication environment, providing service level monitoring, alert thresholds, and plans for addressing potential network issues in a proactive manner.
Designing and introducing changes into the network environment and providing support for escalated problems and service requests for supported network hardware and software.
Ensure that the performance and availability of the data infrastructure is maintained to the highest standards so that maximum productivity is achieved.
Establishment of Project Plan to undertake Security Risk Assessment and Security Plan.
Setting the operation manual and policies for network and security including maintenance and update schedule.
Setting the standards for the remote branches implementations around the world starting with UK.
Reviewing the Design for the Disaster Recovery Solution regarding multiple vendors
(HP/Double take - Dell/VMware - Microsoft - Cloud 365).
Make a research on increasing data security for the client firm.
Available for on-call and emergency response as needed.
Identify and recommend improvement opportunities that are consistent with client needs.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of security threats, countermeasures, security tools and network technologies by vendor sessions at the HQ Office.
Installation, configuration and maintenance networking equipment and network operating systems.
Secures an information technology infrastructure that provides reliable, measurable, consistent, responsive and secure enterprise network services.
Concentrates on the network design and security, particularly troubleshooting and/or debugging network-related problems.
Handles web and network security exploits, intrusion prevention, network traffic analysis, cryptography and encryption.
Maintenance of the network’s authorization infrastructure, as well as network backup systems.
Routing protocols and routing table configuration assignment.
Configuration of authentication, authorization and directory services.
Maintenance of network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers etc.
Maintenance of network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems, etc.
Design scalable and secure data / voice network with highest level of availability and performance in a cost-effective way that suits the business.
Plan, configure and oversee the implementation of the network infrastructure in co-ordination with users, customers, principals, service providers, business partners and hardware / software vendors to ensure implementation meets design parameters with minimal disruption to the business.
Provide second level support to Service Desk Calls. Provide speedy resolution for complex problems escalated by support engineers & system administrators.
Identify network bottlenecks and perform fine tuning of network components.
Identify business requirements and provide technical solution to establish network infrastructure.
Keep abreast of networking technologies and tools, evaluate and recommend for incorporating into Network so as to improve scalability, reliability, security, performance, availability and cost-effectiveness.