Kashif Jafri, SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Kashif Jafri

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Virgin Media O2

Location
Great Britain (UK) - London
Education
Master's degree, IT, animation
Experience
8 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 11 Months

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER at Virgin Media O2
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since August 2017

2017-08 - Current SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER
Virgin Media O2, Slough
• Responsible for supporting customer's WAN, LAN, wireless LAN networks, wireless management platforms, shared core network, and security solutions.
• Solutions such as VPNs, firewalls, intrusion detections, and mitigation tools.
• Recommended network security standards and upgrades to management.
• Troubleshoot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.
• Created VPN infrastructure and allowed for secure remote connections.
• Provide detailed network diagrams and procedural guidelines.
• Firewall management (ASA, Fortigate, Checkpoint).
• Support ISE.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION NETWORK ENGINEER at Infosys
  • United Kingdom - Cardiff
  • July 2016 to July 2017

• Designed, migrated and deployed two new data centres for Walsh Waters, comprising Nexus 9500, Nexus 7010, Nexus 2248, ACI, UCS Manager, 3850, Checkpoint, ASA5515, and Bluecoat.
• Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports, and documents.
• Increase customer satisfaction by resolving issues after a successful DC migration project handover to NOC with training.

NETWORK ENGINEER at Next IT Solutions
  • United Kingdom
  • December 2015 to June 2016

• Designed DC migration plans, LLD, configurations, IP addressing, site migration plans, failover test plans, support procedures, and disaster recovery. Provide support switches, routers, F5, and FWs (ASA & Checkpoint).
• Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions. Detected intrusion attempts and promptly responded to DDoS attacks.

IT Network Engineer at KingFisher Plc
  • United Kingdom
  • August 2015 to December 2015

• Reviewed network changes for technical accuracy and impact and provided multi-protocol network problem resolutions within the ITIL framework. Configuring OTV, HSRP, NAT, firewall rules, Fabric Extenders, VLANs, BGP, OSPF and IS-IS.

Network Engineer at Robert Half International
  • United Kingdom - Birmingham
  • June 2015 to August 2015

• Managing IP Network scheme, IOS Upgrades, supporting HSRP, STP, 802.1Q trunking, latency, ACL, BGP, OSPF, and QoS.

Education

Master's degree, IT, animation
  • at University Of Bradford
  • September 2007

Specialties & Skills

Cisco IOS
IT Security
Firewall Administration
Network Design
Managing team

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco SISE (Certificate)
CCDA (Certificate)
CCIE DC: Data Centre (Written Exam) (Certificate)
CCNA Security (Certificate)
CMNA (Certificate)
SSDP (Certificate)
CCNP (Certificate)
CCNA (Certificate)