syed ali, Senior Network Security Engineer

syed ali

Senior Network Security Engineer

Saudi Arabian monetary agency (Central bank of

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Computer Network Technology
Experience
15 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months

Senior Network Security Engineer at Saudi Arabian monetary agency (Central bank of
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2010

• Implementing and configuring Access Rules, Nat Rules on the Juniper Firewall for the internet facing applications
• Configuring Site-to-Site VPN on the Juniper firewalls depending upon the needs & requirement
• Implementing and configuring Access policies, on the Fortigate Firewall for the new requirement
• Configuring, troubleshooting any routing issues in the DMZ.
• Troubleshooting the configured policies, VPN and investigating & analyzing the logs to resolve the issue
• Upgrade the firewalls to keep up with security patches, new vulnerabilities and bug fixes.
• Load balancing the application’s and frontend Servers with Virtual servers on F5 BIG-IP LTM according to the needs & requirement
• Assess security needs and choose an appropriate F5 ASM security policy methodology
• Apply F5 ASM Security policies for the custom in-house developed application’s and customize it
• Determine the appropriate criteria for initial policy definition based on application requirements
• Updating attack signatures on F5 Big-ip ASM and updating the F5 Big-ip with latest hotfixes.
• Deployed F5 Big-Ip APM for remote access to various resources via SSL VPN and integrated RSA authentication Manager for second factor authentication.
• Deployed & Published many application like OWA etc… with F5 BIG-IP APM
• Administering, configuring, troubleshooting RSA Authentication Manager and assigning tokens to the new VPN user when required.
• Investigating Root-cause based on the dump files extracted from the devices deployed in the network.

NOC Engineer at Mobily (BMC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2010 to August 2010

• Provisioning new BGP, L2vpn, L3vpn connections for the customers.
• Performing preliminary acceptance test and integrate the newly added routers and switches to the network.
• Troubleshooting network issues like congestion, Routing issues etc
• Identifying the irrelevant configurations and cleaning up of the routers.
• Troubleshoot the tickets related to Customer issues (l2vpn, l3vpn, DIA) etc.
• Performing the Change managements to perform software, hardware, and design changes with the network elements.
• Troubleshooting and managing issues with Juniper T640, M320, MX960, MX480 and MX240 core routers etc

Network Engineer at El-Khayyat Red Bricks Manufacturing
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2009 to March 2010

• To maintain the uptime of the network of the organisation and resolve the critical issues related to LAN &WAN.
• Implemented Cisco IOS firewall & IPS(Intrusion Prevention System)
• Troubleshooting any reported problems.
• Upgraded the Head-office network with Cisco ASA firewall & implemented routing and firewall rules on the Cisco ASA Firewall.
• Responsible for managing western region of network (ie. includes cisco routers, switches, ASA Firewall).
• Implemented IPsec site-site Vpn across the branches.
• Configured NAT to allow Web applications and Web servers to be available through the public network.

Technical support executive at Brigade Corporation
  • India - Hyderabad
  • September 2006 to September 2007

Education

Master's degree, Computer Network Technology
  • at Northumbria University
  • December 2008
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and communication Engineering
  • at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • May 2006

Specialties & Skills

Network Security
Network Technology
ASSETS RECOVERY
FIREWALLS
MICROSOFT ACCESS
POLICY ANALYSIS
REQUIREMENTS
ROUTERS
SERVERS
TROUBLESHOOTING

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

F5 Certified Administrator (Certificate)
Valid Until:
December 2016
Cisco CCNA Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Valid Until:
June 2017
F5 Certified Technology Specialist ASM (Certificate)
Valid Until:
December 2016
Juniper JNCIS Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2014
Valid Until:
July 2017