Senior Network Security Engineer
MADA COMMUNICATIONS CO
Total years of experience :19 years, 11 Months
• Developed and maintained company-wide endpoint security solutions.
Coordinated with third-party security information and event management (SIEM)
providers to maintain protections and predict threats.
• Monitored data transfer security to detect and prevent intrusion attempts and respond to
DDoS attacks.
• Initiated and managed network test facilities to verify network hardness and resilience.
Authored security and vulnerability reports, detailing logged incursions and suggesting
remediation efforts.
• Installed and maintained commercial firewall solution, working with security vendors to
consistently apply best practices and software updates.
• Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network
problems.
• Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network
solutions.
• Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, Fortinet, and PaloAlto.
• Provided detailed network diagrams, process flow charts, and procedural guidelines.
Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
Recommended options for disaster recovery, remote access, network appliances, servers,
and directory services security.
• Created VPN infrastructure over SDWAN infrastructure between 50+ nodes, allowing for
secure connectivity between locations.
• Initiated and managed network test facilities to verify network hardness and resilience
Integrated fixed wireless connectivity into facilities lacking access to terrestrial
high-speed networks
• Installed, commissioned new mada POPs and consolidating existing POPs to build a structured MPLS backbone carrying triple-play services like voice, data and video across Kuwait.
• Handling core IP backbone network scaled to distribution node/POPs via Fiber link based on Giga-Ethernet links.
• Configuring and maintaining IGW/Border Internet Routers peering to International Gateway and Core MPLS network.
• Developed and maintained a number of tools to assist the Network Engineering group in their tasks, including project management tracking, tracking IP, VLAN, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS and BGP community allocations, visualizing switch-fabric topology, and visualizing BGP route-reflector topology for MPLS network.
• Presently, involved in designing, implementing and configuration of wide range of networking products within Al Kout Mall (Kuwait).
• Designing and implementation wide range of hotspot solution SME environment integrated to Zajil core MPLS backbone through FTTx/xDSL media
• Installed, commissioned new mada POPs and consolidated existing POPs to build a structured MPLS backbone carrying triple-play services like voice, data and video across Kuwait.
• Handling core IP backbone network scaled to distribution node/POPs via Fiber link based on Giga-Ethernet links.
• Configuring and maintaining IGW/Border Internet Routers peering to International Gateway and Core MPLS network.
• Developed and maintained a number of tools to assist the Network Engineering group in their tasks, including project management tracking, tracking IP, VLAN, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS and BGP community allocations, visualizing switch-fabric topology, and visualizing BGP route-reflector topology for MPLS network.
• Maintained the Network Engineering group's applications responsible for gathering traffic statistic information, utilizing primarily MRTG.
• Responsible for Core Voice service based on SIP Protocol to interconnect end-user over WiMAX CPE to Kuwait PSTN network imploring IP/TDM conversion via high-speed IP backbone, generating voice traffic consumption statistics.
• Designing and implementing a wide range of hotspot solutions SME environment integrated to Mada core MPLS backbone via WiMAX and Fiber infrastructure.
• Configured Cisco Routers (2800, 1800) using RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP.
• Configure Cisco Switches (3524, and 2900)
• Configure Wireless Access Points and Wireless gateway.
• Installation and commissioning of Kuwait Stock Application for brokers and investors.
• Configuring and installing Ethernet based broadband routers.
• Field support engineer for end-user 802.16d WiMAX link.
• Testing of faulty WiMAX CPE.
• Administrating Cisco routers.
• Installing Wireless gateway and SOHO networking equipment.
• Providing level 2 networking support to residential and corporate customer deployed VSAT link.
• Advance troubleshooting on VSAT system imploring DAMA, PAMA, SCPC and FTDMA based technology.
• Handling configuration of end-user routers and switches.
• Onsite customer support.
Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering July 2000 - June 2002 St. Xavier's Technical Institute, Mumbai, India