Solution Architect (IT)
Department of Civil Aviation
Total des années d'expérience :19 years, 2 Mois
Currently Working in Department of Civil Aviation Sharjah as Solution Architect (IT), Design, Deploy and Manage Data Center using Juniper, Cisco, HP, APC products.
Responsibilities Include:
• Configure, Managing and Monitoring Juniper SRX240H2, EX3300, EX2200, Cisco ASA 5512 FirePower, Cisco 2921/K9-3G & Cisco ISR 4331/K9 Routers, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server
• Manage and Monitor MPLS Links between other government entities.
• Manage and Monitor BGP/OSPF Routes between different departments.
• Implement end User Policies for Internet, Intranet, End-User devices, Quota system etc as per user level
• Managing the scope, Designing and Planning, cost estimating, and pricing of consulting projects.
• Ensure projects are completed on-time as per budget and client expectations for quality and functionality.
• Communicate and Maintain project status to relevant Government entities in reports and status meetings
• Troubleshooting Network, System and Storage relative issue, educate to employees about that and provide replacement with new hardware if require.
• Day by Day Provide Technical support to employees
• Manage and Monitor End-User equipment and ensure about software and services employees using
Responsibilities Include:
• Configuration, testing, and maintenance of LAN/WAN equipment’s.
• Provide technical support to customers via remote access and visits.
• Attend pre-sales and post-sales meetings.
• Float BOQs to relevant team with complete documentation.
• Carry out POCs and help Sales team to close the deal.
• Planning, designing, implementation of Cisco/HP network projects and participate in network expansion activities for all new and existing customers.
• Network infrastructure equipments installation (Routers, switches, firewalls & AVAYA IP Telephony)
• Hands on experience on protocols VPN-IPsec, GRE tunnel, VLAN, VTP, STP, and Ether channel OSPF, BGP.
• Installation of network security products such as sonic wall, Barracuda (Web filter, Anti-spam) and SOPHOS (web filter and UTM).
• Implementation of network monitoring system (SolarWinds) to facilitate customer to actively monitor network and eradicate issue at earliest.
• Configuration and installation of backup solution using Unitrends backup and Sonicwall CDP.
• Intermediate knowledge of DLP and SIEM solutions.
• Intermediate knowledge and installation of Domain controller, DHCP, FTP, HYPER-V and VmWare
Major Projects
• Solarwinds: Design, deploy and provided training of different modules of solarwinds in private and public sectors of UAE that are (Ministry of Presential Affairs UAE, Etisalat Sharjah, Dubai Municpality, Ajman Executive, Al Maktoum International Airport Dubai, Jumbo Electronics, Ghandi Motors)
• Barracuda: Deployed and provided training of barracuda webfilter at different locations of Prime Medical Center UAE.
• Sophos: Deploy Sophos firewall with different features at multiple customers that are Agthia, Indian National School Sharjah and Prime Medical Center UAE.
• Cisco: Deploy ASA firewall and Cisco Switches with different features at Al Khaleej Sugar and Sharjah Transport.
• Aruba: Deploy complete Wireless Network using Aruba Access Controller/Access Point Shj RTA.
Currently working in Interactive Group of Companies as Sr.Engineer (Networks & Security) having 7+ years of experience of designing, deploying, managing Data Centers using Service Delivery Architecture (SDA). Extensive hands-on experience with network equipment vendors Juniper, Cisco, Huawei, Brocade.
Responsibilities Include:
1 Managing Teams of (Network & Security) of Sindh & Balochistan.
2 Information Security Officer:Administrating all ISMS activities in Sindh & Balochistan.
3 Monitoring, administering and troubleshooting Juniper Routers (Routing/Creating & Managing point to point links/Taking automated backups).
4 Monitors network with the help of the tools: NSM(Juniper), Cacti, MRTG, PRTG, Zenoss, IPCheck Server Monitor, GFI Network Server Monitor, Ethereal, Scrutinizer NetFlow, OpenNMS & SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
5 Day to day planning and development in the network.
6 Configuration of OSPF, BGP and IBGP in our network.
Troubleshooting of network if there is any issue in core network.
7 Upgrading/modifying security policies for our network in Junos/Netscreen.
8 Providing troubleshooting/consulting services to enterprise customers for establishing secure VPN connectivity using IPSEC.
Responsibilities include
1 Involved in Deployment of MPLS and L3VPNs for IP/MPLS core using juniper M7i/M10i routers for connectivity of Regional offices with Central Site.
2 Design & Implement Network and Security Solutions.
3 Delivered and implemented secure network security architecture for the Data Center.
4 Configurations of firewall policies, routing, zones, Virtual Private Networks, High Availability and Load Balancing between core and Aggregation firewalls
5 Implementation of Netscreen Security Manager for centralized firewall management
6 Implementation of numerous site to site Virtual private Networks (VPNs) as per client requirement
7 Implementation of Virtual Chassis (switches) for backend and front end services.
8 Daily security administration and maintenance of infrastructure and processes.
9 Monitoring of Network to ensure secure and smooth operations.
10 System Recovery.
11 Troubleshooting.
Major Projects
1. SDN: Design and deploy Data Center of 50 racks using Service Delivery Architecture (SDA).
Services Provided: Office Automation System, VoIP, Video Conferencing, Print/Scan, Portal
2. Office Automation Sys: Consists of 150 sites in Pakistan which r connected through different media like VSAT,
WiMAX, and E1s & P-T-P Microwave links. Different products & application have been implemented.
3. VSat: Lockheed Martin's Company Project for Pakistan FIA we provide WAN connectivity over
VSat.
4. HMIS: Responsible for the hospital’s campus Network design and deployment. Environment includes Juniper Firewalls, Cisco Switches and Juniper EX 4200 switches in a VC environment.
Satcomm Broadband Communications from March 3, 2005 to Oct 19, 2007
Basic Responsibilities
• Formed an important part of the team that designed, developed, implemented, commissioned and is currently fine tuning the entire Broadband Cable Infrastructure.
• Held the major responsibility of configuring and managing CMTS Access Servers (ADC’s CUDA 3000) and associated Provisioning Server (IBM’s Fast Flow Broadband Provisioning Manager).
• Planned the product packages and set up associated user access policies to the network.
• Designed network flow for Network’s Backbone Fiber and configured the corresponding ADMs (Luminous E500) in accordance to it.
• Formed an important part of the team to handling the problems on Cisco’s Routers and Switches.(7200VXR, 2948G, 4500Catalyst, 2960)
A UGC certified MS degree. Have been taught numerous courses, such as; Networking, Telecomm Switching, Signal & System, and Linux. Various Projects were assigned to evaluate the performance in these courses
A UGC certified 3 Years BCS degree. Have been taught numerous courses, such as; Programming Concepts using C, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Computer Architecture and Organization and OS. Various Projects were assigned to evaluate the performance in these courses