Taimoor Ahmed, Senior Network and Security Engineer

Taimoor Ahmed

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Wateen Solutions

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
Experience
9 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 5 Months

Senior Network and Security Engineer at Wateen Solutions
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since May 2019

Responsibilities
•Network Planning, Implementation, and Operation with Optimization assistance to Advanced Services. This includes R&S along with Cisco Firewall and but mainly revolving around Cisco NAC (ISE & ACS)
•Complete project deployment including documentation (LLDs) of banking Infrastructure to support inter-technology and vendor integrations for network access control services. This includes ISE, FTD, FMC, SFR and WLC integration for better endpoint security
•ASA, FTD, FMC, WSA, ISE, AMP, Anyconnect, Umbrella, VPN, AAA, ACL, dot1x, WLC, Firewall clustering, dot1q, and LACP(Huawei and Cisco) integrations and deployments.
• Integration of multi-vendor products for service delivery of ISE along with CoA and roll out. This includes the following subsections as well
•Wired Dot1x implementation with Cisco Catalyst ( approx. 2000 Endpoints)
•Endpoint Addition using csv file from export options.
•Wireless Dot1x implementation with Cisco WLC and ME (Mobility Express) ( approx. 1500 Endpoints)
•CA Certificate Implementation (For Admin, Portals, EAP Authentication ) applicable for approx. 5000 endpoints (Wired + Wireless + VPN users)
•Wired 802.1x MAB implementation ( approx. 3000 Endpoints) IP Phones + Cameras + Printers)
•Provisioning NAC agent (Any-connect Supplicant) from ISE.
•ISE and Microsoft AD (Active Directory) Integration
•ISE authentication and authorization profiles depending upon location type and groups imported from AD or created locally.
•Web Based user authentication.
• Posture compliance for VPN and Dot1x endpoints.
•Endpoint profiling and profile feed updates from Cisco ISE portal.
•Sponsor and guest portal along with BYOD for wired and Wireless users.

•VPN planning and establishment.
•Co-ordination with Cisco TAC and escalations for NAC and Security products (ISE, WSA, Umbrella etc.)

Senior Network Engineer at Cyber Internet Services
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2015 to May 2019

Responsibilities
 Core network Infrastructure Management that includes new planning and integration of broadband resellers.
 Inter-city connectivity, capacity and traffic management planning. (Vlan, 802.1Q, QinQ, STP, ERPS)
 Maintaining VAS from multiple Linux based cloud servers as an MPLS central services behind a VR of frotigate.
 Leading a team of six that manages up-to 120 Gigs of traffic, it’s complains and operations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
  • at Sir Syed University Of Engineering And Technology
  • December 2014

Bachelors of Telecommunication Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Network Design
Network Security
Core Network
IP Networking
MPLS VPN
BROADBAND
CAPACITY PLANNING
COMPUTER HARDWARE
CONTROL
DELIVERY

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Languages

Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Cisco Specialist (ISE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
June 2023
Cisco Certified Specialist (Security) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
June 2023
CCNP Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2020
Valid Until:
June 2023

Hobbies

  • Reading and Live Interactive Sessions
    Employee of the year 2018 Employee of the month March 2018