Ali Alawish, Senior cyber security engineer

Ali Alawish

Senior cyber security engineer

SITE

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Network Engineer
Experience
5 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 11 Months

Senior cyber security engineer at SITE
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2019 to November 2019

 Led the deployment team to design and integrate clients' security infrastructures.
 Supported NGFW (Palo Alto, Fortinet) configurations and VPNs.
 Worked on Cisco CIMC, ESXi, VMware, and VSphere.
 Handled the VMs installations for SIEM, EDR, Threat Detection solutions.
 Worked on IBM QRadar to verify logs collection.
 Controlled all assets inventory.
 Took care of hardware purchasing.

Network Engineer at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • September 2014 to March 2019

Supported network infrastructure design and configurations.
 Worked on L2 and L3 switches (Juniper, Cisco, Nexus, HP) implementations.
 Maintained Juniper Firewalls, brocade/F5 load balancers, and multiple security appliances.
 Implemented NAC solutions, monitoring and back up applications.
 Maintained all network devices upgrades and configuration.
 Automated the weekly configurations changes on more than 150 network devices.
 Automated the connectivity for all endpoints.
 Reduced man hour and saved cost with the design, implementation and integration of ClearPass.
 Carried on daily network trouble shootings.
 Conducted multiple POCs with different vendors.
 Held 24/7 on-call duties.
 Took initiatives volunteer work such as Department safety ambassador.
 Led Network team.
 Managed the Network Management Group activities:
o Weekly team reports to higher management.
o Provided direction and guidance to team members.
o Handled assets and purchasing.
o Worked with all levels of the organization.
o Assigned tasks and goals to team members.
o Followed up on all network related concerns with different vendors and organization groups.

Network Operation engineer at Bank Albilad
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to August 2014

Handled the creation and assignment of daily tickets for different matters.
 Worked on Cisco L2 switches and routers configurations for new branches and ATMs
 Worked on applications monitoring and reporting.
 Opened and followed up on cases with ISP for daily connectivity issues.

Education

Master's degree, Network Engineer
  • at Dalhousie University
  • June 2013
Master's degree, Network Engineer
  • at Dalhousie University
  • June 2013

Specialties & Skills

Firewall Management
Firewalls
Security
Network Design
Networks
Communication
Self Development
Self Learning

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
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