Tarek Sleem, Security PS Team Leader-CCIE 53935

Tarek Sleem

Security PS Team Leader-CCIE 53935

Equinox

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Good
Experience
14 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 3 Months

Security PS Team Leader-CCIE 53935 at Equinox
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2018

Lead and develop security PS team in resolving issues, achieving positive results and extra miles. Work with executive and management to develop company security profiles and partnerships. Keep abreast of the requirements of our clients and regulated environments. Plan, design, configure, and implement enterprises, security solutions and integrations. Evaluate, recommend new security products and services as well as maintain knowledge of emerging technologies for security to the clients. Coordinate with other teams (Presales, Sales and PM) to deliver projects successfully and expand other real opportunities with customers. Act as a security solution architect or technical manager on some of critical mega projects.

Senior security consultant at Zuri Technologies
  • United Kingdom - London
  • April 2017 to December 2017
Senior Security Engineer at Orange Business Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2016 to March 2017

- Troubleshooting and resolving high complexity customer faults on ( Juniper Firewall SRX - Checkpoint
firewall - Bluecoat proxy - F5 BIGIP - Zscaler - Fortinet UTMs - Cisco IronPort, ASA, router & switch).
- Perform solution releases by authorizing, validating (changes, upgrades, updates, patches and
migrations) and implementing them.
- Perform service changes by assessing risk and implementing requests reported within the agreed
Change Management process through Orange Change tools.
- Resolve service problems by performing root cause analysis and designing action plans for unknown
errors reported through: Problem Management Dashboard.
- Manage customer (internal and external) complains and provide them with regular updates as per each
of the service support processes.

Network Security Engineer at E-Finance (Cloud provider - Cisco Gold Partner)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2014 to June 2016

- Implement multi-vendor NGFW/IPS (Cisco, Sourcefire, Palo Alto, Fortinet, McAfee Sidewinder).
- Implement Cisco Web Security Appliance (Ironport) with WCCP and PAC files.
- Implement variety of VPNs (S2S, DMVPN, EzVPN, SSL client) on Cisco routers and ASA.
- Deploy management/control plane security features (CoPP/Cppr/quing-threshould/uRPF).
- Deploy switches security features (DAI/DHCP snooping/IP source guard/BPDU guard/port security/VLAN
hopping).
- Administrate Entrust Identity Guard (Authentication and Identity Management Platform).
- Administrate Cisco ISE, NAC and ACS.
- Administrate Nessus Vulnerability Scanner.
- Administrate load-balancing systems (F5 LTM, Cisco ACE).
- Provide security guidance and drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with other teams
- Analyze and review vulnerability assessment, penetration test reports and fix security vulnerabilities.
- Enforcing the network security policies and complying with requirements of external security audits and
recommendations such as PCI and ISO.
- Execute and fix corporate and external customers changes and service requests.
- Communicate with vendors (Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, etc...) TAC engineers to solve advanced cases.
- Deliver demos and PoCs design and demonstration for customers .
- Prepare solution documentations for knowledge transfer to the operation team.

Network and System Administrator at BNP Paribas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2010 to September 2014

- Assess the requirements and develop action plans for accomplishing company goals through
appropriate technical solutions.
- Implement, configure, and support all enterprise network routers and switches.
- Administrate IP address schemes and their assignment to network equipment.
- Propose and implement network enhancements to optimize network operation and availability.
- Develop and participate in disaster recovery planning and business continuity practices.
- Assist in planning and implementation of major modifications in the network.
- Meet with service providers (ISPs) to maintain all services SLAs.
- Document network changes and update diagrams accordingly.
- Perform the necessary upgrade for Cisco routers and switches.
- Monitor Network (LAN/WAN) performance and performs emergency and scheduled maintenance to
maintain its function operates properly.
- Analyze and diagnose repeated issues and take the required actions to eliminate the root cause.
- Implement site-to-site VPNs (IPSec over GRE tunnel, GET-VPN).
- Troubleshoot network issues of Vlans, HSRP, Ether channels, ACL, AAA, NAT, PBR, VPN and routing
protocols EIGRP, OSPF & BGP.
- Configure SNMP and Net-flow over all network devices.
- Update the database of monitoring systems and backup the configuration of network devices
periodically.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Good
  • at Helwan University Cairo
  • July 2009

- I had successfully participated in Made In Egypt (MIE) competition with my graduation project (GPS tracking with indoor capability) and passed all its phases on its fourth round for the year 2008 – 2009.

High school or equivalent, 93%
  • at Zaky Mobarak
  • July 2004

Specialties & Skills

Network Analysis
Network Administration
Network Migrations
Network Systems
Network Testing
Solarwinds
Cisco IOS
Network Administration
Cisco Call Manager
TACACS+
SSH Client
Leased Lines
Network Monitoring Tools
Netflow
Cisco 3G Wireless WAN
Cisco IP Telephony Design
Communication Skills
Active Team Player
Work Hardening
Easily Adaptable
communication skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Operating Juniper Networks Routers in the Enterprise (OJRE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Advanced Juniper Networks Routing in the Enterprise (AJRE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2010
Valid Until:
January 9999
Fundamentals of Windows Server 2008 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2012
Valid Until:
July 2012
IT Essentials PC Hardware and Software (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2008
Valid Until:
January 9999
Configuring & Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Valid Until:
August 2012
Using Components of the Desktop System WS-1000-S10 (Solaris Operating System )) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009
Valid Until:
February 2009
- Configuring & Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Valid Until:
July 2012
CCNP R&S (Certificate)
Valid Until:
June 2012
CCNA R&S (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2010
Valid Until:
November 2013