Waheedullah Totakhil, Senior Network Security Engineer

Waheedullah Totakhil

Senior Network Security Engineer

AWCC

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Information Technology
Expérience
9 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :9 years, 2 Mois

Senior Network Security Engineer à AWCC
  • Afghanistan
  • août 2018 à mars 2024

PacketFence, Juniper, TrendMicro TP and Nessus for network security hardening and optimal operations.
• Planned, configured and optimized the network and security solutions for Business Applications such as Fortinet NGFW, TrendMicro Tipping Point IPS, F5 ASM (WAF), F5 LTM, and AWS ELB.
• Operated and designed the data center and network infrastructure technologies such as Cisco ACI, Nexus, VMWare NSX-T, Cisco routers, switches, Juniper EVPN, VXLAN, and F5 LTM.
• Configured the daily changes on Palo Alto NGFW and Juniper SRX firewalls in terms of advance security policies, NAT and Site-to-Site VPN.
• Build and optimize the F5 ASM policy for different application as well allowing legitimate traffic on ASM.
• Hosted new applications/services on F5 by configuring the Virtual System, Pools, SNAT, iRule, and profiles.
• Troubleshoot the users concern with help of captured logs on different solutions and getting the user traffic (packet capture) for issue analyzing and identifying the cause.
• Deployed and operated the ManageEngine Desktop central endpoint security solution for end-user security.
• Followed daily tasks and updated the tickets with progress on Jira IT service management software.
• Executed the implementation of remote access VPN requirements on PaloAlto GlobalProtect VPN solution.
• Prepared scripts for new deployments as well as for daily operation task via Python and Ansible.
• Used the Netmiko, Paramiko, Genie, NCClient, request, Regular Expression and other libraries on scripts.
• Prepared the variety of Ansible inventory file and playbooks and automated the creation/modification of security policies, device backup, Banner, user/password, and other tasks on different network devices including the Juniper XRS, MX, QFX, EX, Cisco devices, as well Dell MX7K switches and others.
• Deployed and maintained the business application on cloud environment by utilization of multiple AWS services such as EC2 instances, ELB, Route53, S3 buckets, security groups, NACL, and NAT.
• Maintained the user access as well as the billing records on AWS Cloud environment.
• Deployed the Juniper SDWAN solution called Juniper Mist, and integrated 50 plus branch networks for the intention of central management, easy monitoring, configuration automation, and operation efficiency.
• Designed and configured the Juniper Data Center solution, utilized the MPBGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and MC-LAG.
• Maintained the UBNT wireless network consist of controller, AP, M5 P2P devices, with PacketFence integration.
• Ensured that configurations are identical on all devices of both primary (DC) and standby (DR) data centers.

Network Engineer à ADRAS (AFG Development & Registry Addressing Services)
  • Afghanistan - Kaboul
  • janvier 2017 à août 2018

• Performed the troubleshooting and configuration of Routing Protocols and Switching technologies such EIGRP, OSPF, Static Routes, Redistribution, VLAN, Trunking, ARP, VACL, HSRP, VRRP, SPAN, etc.
• Implemented DMVPN & IPSec over Microwave, Fiber, and VSAT links to ensure redundancy and integrity.
• Deployed the Cisco ACS 5.3 (ISE) and integrated the AD, ASA, ISR, Catalyst SW, Nexus, WLAN, etc.
• Maintained the Palo Alto NGFW for the web traffic management of end-users.
• Integrated various nodes and services with SolarWinds SIEM and utilized for diagnoses and issue resolution.
• Utilized different tools for troubleshooting such as Wireshark, logs, debug, ipconfig, etc.
• Maintained the wireless network consist of UBNT Wireless LAN controller, UBNT Access Points, and M5.
• Provided support to resolve the network issues of remote networks distributed throughout the country.
• Configured the Cisco ASA 5525 Firewall for the hub and remote region networks using S2S IPSec VPN.
• Utilized different tools for network and security troubleshooting tools such as; Wireshark, Nmap, nslookup, TCPdump, debug, Splunk events, logs, ping, traceroute, and Cacti.
• Cooperated with Network, System, Avaya Telephony, and VSAT teams, while reported to NOC Manager.

Network Administrator à ZTECH (Zohak Holding Group Inc)
  • Afghanistan - Kaboul
  • février 2015 à décembre 2016

• Executed the daily changes of PaloAlto firewall in terms of rules, objects, events, and CLI troubleshooting.
• Migrated the services from Cisco ASA firewalls to Checkpoint and Juniper SRX firewalls for remote offices.
• Configured and patched Windows, Linux, network, and virtualized systems to eliminating vulnerabilities.
• Optimized the network bandwidth and server loads by monitoring and eliminating unnecessary payloads.
• Operated the monitoring servers of SolarWinds, PRTG, Huawei U2000, and Cacti.
• Maintained the VPN connections with client networks using the Cisco ASA 5508-X firewall.
• Provided support to resolve the network issues of remote networks distributed throughout the country.
• Provisioned the network connectivity to the new services hosted by system team.
• Configured the Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, and Cisco ASA Firewalls for the newly deployed sites.
• Ensured that the network devices configuration are backed up periodically, and maintained the record.
• Installed and maintained the wireless network devices including Access Points, and Point to Point antenna.
• Recorded the daily activity progress on ticketing system and reported to supervisor.
• Monitored the network equipment and services ensuring the optimal network performance.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Information Technology
  • à Maryam Institute Of Higher Education
  • décembre 2019

Network Security Core Network Juniper Network Information System Security

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Core
Network Security
Palo Alto
Automation
UBNT Access point
Wireshark
Forensics Tools
NAT, DNS, TCP/IP, VACL
AWS WAF
PacketFence
F5 WAF (ASM)
TCPDump
Cisco Web Security
Malware Protection (AMP)
Sophos SXG-2300
RSA SecureID
Cisco NGIPS, Cisco ASA
Juniper
Ansible
Kali Linux
Cisco Switches & Nexus
Linux distributions
SolarWinds
ACI, SDN, SDWAN, SDLAN
Palo Alto PA-5520 NGFW
FortiGate 2600F
CheckPoint
Cisco Routers XR & ISR
Firepower Mgmt (FMC)
Juniper SRX5800
F5 BIG IP (LTM)
AWS ELB
Manage Engine
Cisco WLC 5500
UNBT Aircontroller
Windows Server
Azure WAF
F5 DNS (GTM)
Cisco IP Phones
Avaya PBX Phones
Cisco Firepower 4100
Bluecoat Proxy SG S500
LibraNMS, Cacti
UBNT Controller
Android
HA Proxy
AWS Route53
AWS SNS
Cisco Access Points
ManageEngine
Juniper QFX,EX,MX
AWS IAM
BGP, MPBGP, MPLS, VPN
AWS AMI
Zabbix, Nagios
Polycom Cameras
Cisco ISE 2.7, ACS 5.3
Huawei NE, CX, & ATN
Traffic Engineering, QoS
AWS ASG
AWS RDS
AWS CloudFront
Cisco Call Manager
OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, Static Routing, Route Leaking
AWS EC2
AWS EFS
AWS EBS
DMVPN, GETVPN, IPSec
SSL, RAVPN, L2TP, VRF
ACL, HSRP, VRRP, VoIP
Huawei NE, CX,
NetFlow, SNMP
UBNT M5
Polycom HDX Modem
Avaya Gateway
PowerShell
Palo Alto

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Persan
Langue Maternelle

Formation et Diplômes

ISO/IEC 27001 “Information Security Associate” (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2021
Fortinet Network Security Associate – NSE2 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2020
Fortinet Network Security Associate – NSE1 (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2020
microsoft Specialist – Hyper-V and System Center (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2014
JNCIA “Juniper Networks Certified Associate – Junos” (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2019
JNCIS “Juniper Networks Certified Specialist – Enterprise” (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2020
PCNSE “Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer” (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2020
Cisco Certified Specialist – Security Core (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
January 2023
CCNA “Cisco Certified Network Associate” (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2015
CCNP “Cisco Certified Network Professional” – Enterprise Infrastructure (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2019

Loisirs

  • Cricket