Ubaid Rauf, Sr Network Security Engineer

Ubaid Rauf

Sr Network Security Engineer

NourNet

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
Experience
10 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 2 Months

Sr Network Security Engineer at NourNet
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2017

• Deploy, implement, configure, and manage Security solutions includes F5, Palo Alto, Fortinet, cisco ASA/FTD firewalls.
• Lead projects in Enterprise & Private/Public cloud includes delivering planning of mid to large scale enterprise DC environment, working end to end from integrator contact, HLD and LLD design documentation and some hand-on implementation.
• Configure, manage, monitor, and analyze IDS/IPS Signatures Attacks, Firewalls log, Systems, Applications and Security Event Log for comprehensive security monitoring and vulnerability management.
• Design, recommend and built solutions and mitigation to address security issues, risk, and vulnerabilities.
• Leading efforts in developing/improving process, procedures, and documentation for all aspects of security
• Responsible to work closely with key process owners to implement the agreed remediation actions
• Identify and recommend gaps and improvements to business processes
• Work closely with key process owners to implement the agreed remediation actions
• Oversee Security Service projects to ensure products are developed with security standards and practices
• Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Implement product upgrades, patches, and capacity expansions
• Provide technical support for activities that improve the security posture.
• Provide technical assistance for investigation and analysis of security alerts
• Build and maintain relationships with internal teams, vendors, and third parties

Sr. Network & Security Engineer at Al Abdul Latif information Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2016 to December 2017

• Providing operational support and project implementation for network infrastructure, including Routing & Switching, Security, Voice, and Wireless.
• Designing VPN, IPsec Solution with policy encryption algorithm.
• Managing Firewall Health and Availability Monitoring.
• Team leader on Designing network infrastructure in line with company standards.
• Designing a firewall rule, web filtering, application filtering and QOS.
• Configuring and maintaining Routing protocols in their specific attributes.
• Configuring Redundancy Protocol such as IP SLA, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP and VSS.
• Administrating of Firewall for Site-to-Site VPN Configuring and end users’ VPN such as IPsec, SSL VPN.
• Daily monitoring of Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms.
• Configuring and troubleshooting HA and load balancing.
• Daily Checking in firewall of unwanted web sites and blocked if suspicious thru IPS.
• Pro- actively monitor the data center systems uptime and connectivity to ensure system availability to prevent any down time, and coordinate problem resolution with vendor second level support groups.

Network Engineer at Mobiserve Pakistan (PVT.) LTD
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 2013 to December 2015

• Responsible for network operations related to routing, switching & security.
• Analyzing and evaluating network security threats and vulnerabilities
• Supporting in the implementation and documentation of network policies, standards, and guidelines
• Promoting network policies, standards, and procedures through adherence in daily operational activities
• Participating in on-call responsibilities in support of 24 x 7 x 365 production environments.
• Coordinating with hardware and software vendors to maintain operations, diagnose issues and resolve problems
• Performing responsibilities of creating implementation plans for network-related projects
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security
• Remote access solution support: VPN, Terminal Services, and Citrix
• Remote monitoring and management of system alerts and notifications
• Participate in the administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system: update agent scripts, respond to alerts, monitor dashboard, and periodic system review
• Document maintenance for all computer systems and network infrastructure
• Communication with customers as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Be available for other engineers and coach them to resolution

Network Support Engineer at Pakistan Mobile communication LTD. MOBILINK
  • Pakistan
  • June 2013 to August 2013

• Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Analyze and isolate issues.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
  • at Superior University
  • March 2022

courses: •Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core (CCNP) •Cisco Certified Specialist- Securing Network with Cisco Firepower (SNCF) •Fortinet’s Network Security Expert certification (NSE4) •Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core (CCNP) •Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation (CCNP) •Huawei Certified Networking Associate (HCNA) •Aruba Certified Mobility Associate (ACMA)

Specialties & Skills

Networks
Firewalls
DOCUMENTATION
FIREWALLS
BUSINESS PROCESS
COACHING
COMPUTER HARDWARE
CRYPTOGRAPHY