Mohamed Ahmed Abouelazm, Network and Security Team Leader

Mohamed Ahmed Abouelazm

Network and Security Team Leader

e-finance

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics Engineering
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Network and Security Team Leader at e-finance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since August 2013

•Implement and support e-finance Customers as Cisco Gold Partner, Cisco Cloud Builder and Cisco Cloud provider
•Build and Operator E-finance as Largest E-payment SaaS cloud Provider in Egypt with (500+ Site and 10, 000+ user)
•Implement best practices and Standards to achieve the below certification
 ISO 9001
 ISO 27001
 PCI
 Visa and MasterCard Global Issuance Centre
•Build and operate E-finance Data centers
 Distributed Data center design (Active / Active)
 Redundant exchanges setup with all ISPs to avoid any single point of failure

Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer at Raya Data Center
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2012 to August 2013

• Manage the existing infrastructure, security projects and prepare the forthcoming ones.
• Plan, design and implement Raya data center new Infrastructure network and Security projects.
• Acting as the second level of escalation for solving network and security tickets
• Managing and supporting new installations for Data center customers include Network and Servers implementation.
• Implementing new network devices (routers, switches), Security devices (Firewalls, Load balancers).
• Implementing new Storage and Servers systems.
• Implementing new VMware projects.

IT Infrastructure Enginner at Raya Data Center
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2010 to December 2011

• Managing over than 300 network node and Optimizing routing and switching configuration to keep the optimal connectivity between sites
• Configuring and troubleshooting customers Cisco ASA, Fortigate Firewalls, Cisco routers & switches and Juinper routers .
• Configuring Site-to-Site and remote access VPNs, and troubleshooting different VPN types (S2S, remote access, ssl) related issues.
• Upgrading the network devices (firewalls, routers and switches )operating system to a suitable version to fit in the device role in the customer network.
• Implementing monitoring systems including PRTG, whats up. Syslog servers like Kiwi syslog and configurations backup tools like Solarwinds Cattools.
• Administration of network Management and monitoring systems included (MRTG, SolarWinds, Wire shark, Whats up, PRTG, Vkernal, and Cisco works).
• Maintaining network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning.
• Configuring TACACS+ and RADIUS on Cisco ACS servers (AAA), and implementing new servers.
• Managing VMware vsphere (4, 4.1 & 5.1) environment and optmizing its intergration with the storage and the network
• Managing HP storage which include storage systems firmware upgrade, and LUNs provision to diffrent hosts (ESX, ESXi and Windows servers)
• Throubleshooting VMware Vsphere issues with the network infrastructure.
• Maintain the technical documentations for existing and new network infrastructure devices

Enterprise support enginner at Etisalat Data MISP
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2010 to October 2010

• Troubleshooting leased lines, MPLS VPN L2 & L3 issues for Enterprise Customers.
• Configuring ATM DSLAMs and IP DSLAMs (Alcatel, Huawei)
• Troubleshooting routing protocols problems (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP)
• Troubleshooting PE-CE configuration problems.
• Dealing with Multi vendors Devices (Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Alcatel, HP).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics Engineering
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2007

Specialties & Skills

Network Security
IP Networking
Data Center Architecture
VMware Infrastructure
Data Center virtualization
Network Security
IT Network infrastructure
System Administration
Service Management
IT Infrastructure throubleshooting
Network Monitoring and Management
VMware Infrastructure
Storage Infrastructure

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CCIE DataCenter # 48645 (Certificate)
CCNP Security (Certificate)
CCNP R&S (Certificate)
Vmware VCP-NV (Certificate)
VMware VCP 5 DCV (Certificate)
CCIE Security # 48645 (Certificate)
ITIL Expert (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Sport
  • Movies