salim malik, Senior Network Administrator

salim malik

Senior Network Administrator

Kuwait College of Science & Technology

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Experience
12 years, 8 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months

Senior Network Administrator at Kuwait College of Science & Technology
  • Kuwait - Al Jahra
  • My current job since December 2015

 Establishing networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation.
 Design and implementation of new solutions and improvement.
 Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, and scheduling upgrades.
 Securing network systems by establishing and enforcing policies.
 The support and administration of firewall environments.
 Migration from SonicWALL to FortiGate Firewall.
 Migration from FortiGate to Checkpoint Firewall.
 Managing Firewall Checkpoint & FortiGate.
 Upgrading data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases.
 The configuration of routing and switching & wireless equipment.
 Migration from HP wireless to CISCO 9800 WLC.
 Capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.
 Configuration & administration of F5 Load balancer.
 Configuration and maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS & File Server.

Network Engineer at Future Focus InfoTech
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2015 to December 2015

 Handle the tasks of supervising and leading a team of network engineers across PAN India.
 Perform responsibilities of ensuring that the systems are documented and kept properly
 Responsible for maintaining the network infrastructure for online services that includes all network environments within the managed platforms across multiple data centers.
 Configuring & managing IP VPN links with different ISP
 Configuring the switches with VLAN and Inter VLAN routing.
 Configuring & managing Juniper Wireless Controller.
 Configure and Deploy what’s app gold networks monitoring tool.
 Perform management and maintenance of internet facing network devices and address space on platforms
 Coordinate with infrastructure engineers, architecture, and delivery teams to ensure that the network infrastructure remains current and performs up to the expected standard
 Interface with customers to ensure that their networks are configured and maintained to support the levels of availability required.
 Delivering the committed network uptimes and adherence to ITIL standards & Company Policy
 Supervising vendors and delivering services within timelines and SLA commitments
 Following ITIL processes such as incident management, change management, Problem management
 To restore normal operations as quickly as possible with the least possible impact on either the business or the user.
 To act as an interface between two technical teams and other groups within the organization to get the incident resolved within specified deadlines.
 To ensure all Major Incidents are addressed within SLA response and sending out Alerts or Notifications.

Network Engineer at Orient Technologies PVT LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • February 2013 to May 2015

 Managing and monitoring DC & DR Network for maintaining 100% uptime.
 Install/Configure Cisco 2901 router, Cisco 2960, 3550, 6500 Switches.
 Install/Maintain Ms Windows 2008, 2012, ADS, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, Cluster and
Microsoft Exchange 2010.
 Managing & monitoring Network LAN and WAN through NNM.
 Working with OSPF routing protocol.
 Monitoring and maintain Cisco Router, Fortigate Firewall, Checkpoint Firewall Switch and
Load Balancer.
 Configuration Cisco Router, Switch and Load Balancer.
 Maintain DNS record for Internal/External.
 Creating and editing firewall policies.
 Implemented Fortigate wireless network.
 Taken part in Fortigate to Checkpoint migration.
 Provide remote support to SSL VPN Client.
 Managing Checkpoint Site-to-Site VPN.
 Managing Array Link load balancer (LLB), Server load balancer (SLB) & Global server load balancer (GSLB).
 IOS up gradation of all network devices.
 Taking back up of all network devices on weekly basis.
 Managing daily operations and health check of all the links and devices.
 Providing support for solving various network related issue.
 Troubleshooting all network related issues and escalating to the concerned team.
 Sending Network uptime report on daily basis.
 Following a change Request and documenting the same for audit purposes.
 Supported Active Directory, DNS & Microsoft Exchange replication.
 Supported a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure.
 Performed multi-site Microsoft Exchange 2010 organization.

Network Engineer at IT Source Technologies Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • October 2012 to February 2013

 Creating VLANS in L2 switches and configuring inter VLAN routing.
 Ensuring L2 connectivity and troubleshooting local network problems due to Ethernet connectivity.
 Providing support for solving and troubleshooting various network related issues and helping local support team with the network design.
 Troubleshooting of network issue.
 Troubleshooting all network related issues and escalating to the concerned team.
 Manage inventory of relevant hardware under maintenance.

Network engineer at IT Source Technologies Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • May 2012 to September 2012

 Managing and monitoring DC Network for maintaining 100% uptime.
 Working on 2800, 1800, 1700 routers, Catalyst Switches 4500 series and 2950 switches.
 IOS up gradation, management of IP address.
 Implementation of various routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, Static routing.
 Taken part in configuration of DR devices and provided support to DR Team.
 Monitor Network through Whatsup Gold.
 Managing daily operations and health check of all the links and devices.
 Following a change process and documenting the same for audit purposes
 Handling all data related change and incident request.
.

Engineer at DSM INFOCOM PVT LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • September 2011 to May 2012

 Maintaining and managing devices spread across geographical location of India.
 Working with Cisco routers and Switches.
 Managing and monitoring DC Network for maintaining 100% uptime.
 Working on 7600, 3745, 2800, 1700 routers, Catalyst Switches 2950 switches.
 Taken Part in IP Migration project which involves migration of VSAT’s to IP Network and configuring leased lines for customers
 Monitor Network through Tivoli.
 Managing daily operations and health check of all the links and devices.
 Detecting Issues regarding leased lines and follow up with concern departments of ISP.
 Sending network report to DC.
 Preventing unauthorized network access.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
  • at Mahatma Gandhi university Meghalay
  • December 2016

IT

Diploma, computer Engineering
  • at Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth
  • May 2009

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Wireless
Web Application Security
Checkpoint
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE
Firewall Administration
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CONTROL
DELIVERY
MANAGEMENT
NETWORKING
PROCESS ENGINEERING
IP Networking
Network Security
Administration
Network Design
Installation
lan switching

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco certified internetwork expert Enterprise (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2023
Valid Until:
August 2026
cisco certified network Professional Routing & Switching (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
Valid Until:
November 2024