tahir kiani, Certified network engineer

tahir kiani

Certified network engineer

Riverbed Technology Ltd

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
High school or equivalent, Network Management
Experience
22 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 2 Months

Certified network engineer at Riverbed Technology Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since May 2012

Troubleshooting SD-WAN appliance in Linux shell offsite and onsite.
▪ Fine tuning scripts to fix issues on linux shell for critical customers.
▪ Writing KBs for issue which are not documented to help the team to get up to date with
the new bugs, solutions and workarounds.
▪ Supporting enterprise customers for SDWAN Gateway appliances and fixing their network
issue by using Linux shell (RedHat, Linux WRT) commands.
▪ Working on critical accounts for WAN Optimization issue which customer face for their
SMB, MAPI, O365, HTTPS/SSL traffic.
▪ Troubleshooting mesh VPN on SD-WAN deployment for our customers.
▪ Using Wireshark to troubleshoot complex issues on communication networks from layer
1 to layer-7 of the OSI model.
▪ Keeping management up to date about the customer issue and their requirement if the
customer has particular feature enhancement need on our products.
▪ Taking ownership of the customer issue while providing timely assistance depending on
the case severity (P1, P2, P3 or P4) and documenting KB articles.

Network Security Specialist at Servebase Ltd. PXP (Payment Card Services- Financial)
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2011 to March 2012
at Network Administrator
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2008 to December 2010
Network Systems Administrator at Monte Rose College – Leyton
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2006 to January 2008

Prevented VLAN-based attack by implementing Switch Spoofing and 802.1q double
tagging. Configured DHCP spoofing, and ARP Spoofing.
▪ Configured site-to-site VPN and GRE Tunnels.
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▪ Document network changes in professional manner for future referencing and
troubleshooting.

  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2001 to April 2006

Education

High school or equivalent, Network Management
  • at Anglia Ruskin University
  • January 2020

courses: CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert- Security Written RCSP Riverbed Certified Support Professional CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional

Specialties & Skills

CheckPoint Firewalls
NETSCAPE ENTERPRISE SERVER
NETWORKING
TROUBLESHOOTING
GATEWAY
OPTIMIZATION
RED HAT LINUX
REQUIREMENTS

Languages

English
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