Mohammed Taher, Sr Network Security Engineer

Mohammed Taher

Sr Network Security Engineer

Emirates NBD

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Diploma, PaloAlto
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Sr Network Security Engineer at Emirates NBD
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2015

Design and manage Emirates NBD, Network Security services infrastructure. Manage a highly complex network security services environment while understanding the challenges of supporting a 24x7 operation. Possess a strong understanding of all aspects of a highly-converged data center network and the ability to troubleshoot, identify and resolve very complex problems in a timely and professional manner. Responsible for delivering new project related to Network Security.
Ensure all the BAU tasks are accomplished within required time to ensure maximum availability of IT services. Perform POC for new security solutions in the market. Liaise with internal and external security auditors to review audit finding, mitigate risk and secured bank infrastructure. Worked with internal risk team to addressed the vulnerabilities and risk findings.

Sr Platform Admin at CA Technologies
  • India - Hyderabad
  • June 2012 to March 2015

Supporting Firewall, Proxy, Load balancer, VPN, TACACS and bit of routing and switching. Involved in engineering projects. Updating infrastructure diagram up to date, create KB articles for recurring issues, training team mates on firewall, LB etc.

Security Engineer at Hewlett Packard
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2010 to June 2012

Transitioned employee from Bank of America to HP. In additional to previous technical role I have been assigned to work as Team Lead for Bank Of America Security Operation team. Roles and responsibilities includes creating monthly schedules, creating RFC’s, generating weekly reports on individual basis, providing feedback to manager on each individual performance, attending change meetings for approvals, documenting new process and providing knowledge transfer on regular basis.

Sr System Engineer at BA Continuum Solutions Ltd
  • India
  • September 2009 to June 2010

BA Continuum Solutions is a non bank subsidiary of Bank of America. I was part of Level 3 Enterprise Domain Operation Team, have various responsibilities including working with Line of Business, supporting existing various network security technologies that includes Firewall, Proxies, Load Balancer etc. Documenting every incident in detail and clear manner as per process. Providing knowledge transfer to colleagues and level 1 team on regular basis.

Network Engineer at Acenseo Ltd
  • United Kingdom
  • September 2007 to September 2009

Acenseo is a leading reseller and manage service provider in IT security. The product list consists of Juniper, bluecoat proxy, barracuda, trend micro, utimaco, skyrecon etc. My role is based on Pre and Post Sales. Pre-Sales involving tech chats with potential customers, presenting online demonstration of the above products, setting up evaluation kit remotely or onsite consultancy including skill transfer. Post Sales includes supporting existing SLA based clients and working along with different vendors to achieve target.

Education

Diploma, PaloAlto
  • at PaloAlto
  • January 2015

Palo Alto Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) Exam - PAN-OS 6.0

Diploma, Checkpoint CCSA
  • at Checkpoint
  • May 2010

Checkpoint CCSA (Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator)

Diploma, Juniper Firewall
  • at Juniper JNCIA FWV 521
  • April 2009

Juniper Network Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)

Specialties & Skills

Knowledge Transfer
Network Security
Continuum
Bluecoat
Cisco Router
Juniper Firewall
Bluecoat Proxy server
Checkpoint Firewall
F5 Load Balancer
Citrix Netscaler
Palo Alto Firewall
Zscaler Proxy
Cisco ACS5.3
Symantec DLP

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2010
Valid Until:
February 2010
Palo Alto Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) Exam - PAN-OS 6.0 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999