Network Security Consultant
Dell Secureworks
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
// Designing and provisioning Security Overlay for Multi-Tenant Data Center Networks
// Designing and provisioning of SOC (Security Operations Center) and CSIRT Incident Handling Plan
// Commissioning of Digital Forensics Services for a large-scale market-leading enterprise
// Distributed Deployment of STRM-5000 (Generation-II) with distributed event and flow processors
// Event & Flow Correlation for a massive data center with more than 10, 000 computing nodes, and largest deployment of Security Gateways (Juniper SRX-5800) with Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA / STRM) while utilizing NetFlow / sFlow, IPFIX protocols
- Implementation of Data Center L2 switching backplane for Manchester based Data Center
- Installation of Juniper EX-3200/4200 Series product line replacing old Cisco catalyst switches for TalkTalk project.
- Design & Integration of Security Gateways using Checkpoint 12000 with UTM-1070 & LogRythm SIEM products.
- Network & Security Team lead in the development of nationwide large-scale Data Centers raised for the Government of Pakistan.
- Data Center Network dimensioning, planning and design along with network auditing (by strict configuration control) using Juniper M/MX/J-Series and Cisco Nexus/6500-Series Core routers deployed in cities across Pakistan.
- Design & Implementation of Security Sub-System for the data centers using Juniper SRX and ISG/SSG Series along with Juniper STRM & IBM Tivoli products.
- Metropolitan-level Access Network design for 10GbE Metro-Ethernet based Optical Fiber Access Network (OFAN) and WiMAX metro-deployment.
- Backhaul Provisioning for inter-datacenter backbone by building a fully reliable IP/MPLS L2/L3 VPN Cloud.
- Designed and deployed Dual Stack IPv4 & IPv6 across corporate network.
- Design & Deployment of Corporate WiFi Network with SSL-VPN & IF-MAP integration.
- Extensive training-cycle & on-site assistance for junior network engineers.
- Implementation of seven Data Center Networks using Brocade Server-Iron (Load Balancers) and Big-Iron Switches along with Juniper ISG/SSG Security Gateways.
- Configuration of Juniper IDP solutions with NSM (NetScreen Security Manager).
- Implementation of on-demand Triple-Play and Voice Telephony networks.
- Implementation of AAA Concept using RADIUS/TACACS and Orion NCM.
- Implementation of SOC using Syslog-ng, GFI Event Manager and other SIEM solutions.
- Configuration of Cisco Nexus 7000/5000 17Tbps Switches with FCoE integration with SAN.
- Implementation of Storage Network using Brocade SAN Switches.
- Configuration of Juniper SSL-VPN Devices (SA/MAG Series).
- Simulation based Performance Analysis on NS2, NS3, OPNET Simulators for Wireless Networks (MANETs, DTNs, Wimax, Bluetooth).
- IEEE Published research work on Gossip based Security Protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.
- Development of RTP based Video Conferencing System.