Hatem ElSahhar, Security Engineering Team Leader

Hatem ElSahhar

Security Engineering Team Leader

Orange Business Services

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Security Engineering Team Leader at Orange Business Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since May 2017

* Leading team members to help them in complex issues, changes, and communication during crisis to advise with better troubleshooting and resolution paths.
* Managing problems and escalation to ensure they are handled properly according to organization’s processes and guidelines.
* Working closely with the head of security engineering to enhance workflow and advise with proper process changes that increase customer satisfaction and team productivity.
* Supervising activities between internal and external resources, to facilitate smooth workflow for service delivery.
* Developing team training plans, ensuring all team members are receiving the required business and interpersonal skills, technical training, coaching and mentoring.

Security Solution Manager at Orange Business Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2014 to April 2017

* Design and develop new Security Solutions for Proxy & SIEM solutions.
* Design and develop new cloud security solutions based on vendor products.
* Provide operations teams with the appropriate documentation and training and lead them during the roll-out and deployment.
* Provide high-level support for presales engineers.
* Provide L3 support for security operation teams.

Network & IT Security Technical Specialist at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2013 to May 2014

* New projects and services security assessment
- Review new projects and services against security baselines and ensure the minimum security requirements.
- Provide Security Professional guidance and consultancies for system admins and project managers regarding new projects design.
* Projects tracking and documentation
- Keep tracking with all the assessment documentation and provide reporting when needed.
- Provide management with weekly updates on all open, pending and closed projects under the ICT Security assessment.

IT Security Access Control Specialist at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2012 to October 2013

* Lead a team within the IT Network Security function that manages the user rights for every application/system within the entire corporate including but not limited to:
- CRM Systems (50+).
- Physical Access Control system.
- Corporate Remote Access authentication system.
- Internet browsing & content cashing system.
- IT Network Security project manager.
- Design and manage new IT Network Security solutions / setups.
- Maintain IT Compliance of access control systems to a standard level.

Network Security Senior Engineer at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2010 to September 2012

* Co-Design, implement and manage different IT Security systems to ensure clean desktop and infrastructure environment from different malicious codes, viruses, and worms. Provide different IT security services and controls according to business needs.
* E-Mail Gateway Administrator.
* Internet Proxy Administrator.
* Firewalls Administrator.
* Vulnerability Assessment Administrator.
* Project Coordinator.

Network Security Engineer at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2008 to October 2010

* Implement and manage assigned IT Security systems to ensure clean desktop and infrastructure environment from different malicious codes, viruses, and worms.
* Two-Factors Authentication System Administrator.
* Physical Access Control system Administrator.
* Firewalls Operator.

User Access Control Security Engineer at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2008 to October 2009

* Ensure that access to Production systems and applications are limited to the authorized staff only.
* Responsible for design, implementation and support of Physical Access control system.

Support Center Engineer at Vodafone
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2006 to September 2007

* Member of the “Account Management Team”, operating some advanced Active Directory operations.
* Co-lead the “Documentation Team”, a technical writing team responsible for producing technical documents covering IT systems support topics (i.e. IT Help desk Technical Manual).
* First line support engineer, handling internal customer requests, solving as much as possible within the agreed on SLA, and routing other problems to the second line engineers.

Technical Support Engineer at Middle East News Agency
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2004 to February 2006

Moved from one position to another during my service period:
* System Administrator (Managing Windows 2000® Active Directory Domains).
* Network Infrastructure Engineer.
* Visual Basic® Windows Application Developer.
* Technical Support Engineer (PC Maintenance).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics Engineering
  • at Higher Institute of Engineering
  • January 2004

Specialties & Skills

Juniper
Ethical Hacking
IS Security
Firewalls
Network Security
Security
Juniper
System Administration
Network Administration
Troubleshooting
Vulnerability Assessment
Ethical Hacking
Bluecoat
Security+
Information Security Management
Cisco Security
IT Security
Certified Cloud Security Professional

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2017
Zscaler Cloud Certified Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2015
Valid Until:
July 2017
CompTIA Security+ Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
ITIL Ver.3 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2009
MCSE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2009
Cisco Certified ASA Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Certified Clearswift Engineer (CCE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
CISSP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Valid Until:
March 2018
MCDST (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2014
MCSA: Messaging (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2005
CEH (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
RSA SecurID Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2013

Hobbies

  • 3D Paper Modeling
    Building small 3D paper models for famous landmarks and other shapes.
  • Filming
    I like shooting short movies with friends related to general life topics with a funny taste.