Nitesh Varghese, Network Engineer

Nitesh Varghese

Network Engineer

KUWAIT NATIONAL GUARD

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

Network Engineer at KUWAIT NATIONAL GUARD
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • My current job since February 2012

• Administrator of Cisco Catalyst 6513 Chassis Switch, 4507E Chassis Switch, ME-3660X Switches, 3850 Switches, 3560 (X & G Series) Switches, 2900 ISR Router, 2851 ISR Router, 819 4G LTE M2M Gateway ISR Routers
• Administration of Fortigate 1000C, Fortianalyzer 1000D and Cisco ASA 5585 Firewall
• Managing of two separate network infrastructures in the organization.
• Managing client connectivity to extranet resources \[KIN Network (CAIT)\]
• Configuring of policies on Firewall devices for network access to particular resources, based on client needs and resource connectivity. \[Based on Application Category, Traffic Shaping, IPS Signatures\]
• Analysing of Firewall logs for suspicious activities outside unknown outside users on organization’s web and email services. (situated in DMZ zone of the firewall)
• Troubleshooting client connectivity issues.
• Design and provide recommendations for new remote site connectivity to server farms.
• Managing Backup at regular time and perform restoring of configuration after hardware failure for above devices.

Field Engineer at QUALITYNET
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2010 to February 2012

• Configuring of SpeedTouch 608 DSL Router for connecting to ATM and GPON Wide Area Networks
• Configuring of Cisco 1800 series for 3G and ATM Wide Area Networks
• Troubleshooting Customer sites internet connectivity issues.
• Support staff for managing Aruba Wifi-System in the Arifjan Camp.

Network/System Administrator at AHLIA GROUP CO. W.L.L., FOR FOODSTUFF & CONSUMER PRODUCTS
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2007 to August 2010

• Administering of the Domain Controller(Intel Xeon-32bit, Quad processor, 4GB RAM)
• Administering Users & Groups in the Domain Controller
• Manages the File Sharing
• Backing up the File System (using Arcsoft TotalMedia Backup and Restore tool)
• Manages the local & remote printers
• Setting User Policies with the Fortigate 100A Firewall for
1. Allowing Full & Limited Access
(Like Blocking torrent download, access to free web-mails, managing user bandwidth etc)
2. Monitoring of User Traffic for internet in the LAN and observing the Syslog and SNMP alerts.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication
  • at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering (Affiliated under Anna University)
  • May 2008

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE
CCNA Certfied

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate