waleed aboda, Head of Network and secuirty

waleed aboda

Head of Network and secuirty

One Global

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering
Experience
11 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months

Head of Network and secuirty at One Global
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since April 2019

 Responsible for a designated set of network security tools and the security functionality of these tools, such as web application firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and web proxies.
 Ensure that incidents are correctly reported and documented in accordance with government policy and procedures.
 Identification of incidents and subsequent analysis and investigation to determine their severity and the response required.
 Monitoring client security infrastructure, identifying and reporting Real Time attacks and vulnerabilities on the client network.
 Daily monitoring of Security Systems and services which include Privileged access management System, AV - Antivirus Solutions, IPS - Intrusion Prevention Systems Sandbox tool, Internet Access Filtering and Content Filtering Solutions, Web application firewall The monitoring shall include health, performance, backup, security violations, notifications, fine-tuning and areas of improvements to enhance the level of security
 Work as team member in handling security related incidents and security operations
 Participate in performing scheduled and ad-hoc security assessment of systems, patches deployments, application and network to ensure that implementation is performed in accordance with organizational policies, procedures and standards.
 Perform research on new security trends, technologies and the latest breaches and propose solutions to improve the level of security
 Conduct configuration and rule base review of Firewalls, Intrusion Prevention systems, Routers, Switches etc.
 Analyze the network traffic to identify security weakness in the data transmission and provide recommendations for remediation
Participate in extermination process of systems and peripherals from security point of view.
 Participate in implementation, upgrade, updates of security products
 Work on other tasks assigned by the superiors.
 Creating designs and support documentation for the delivered infrastructure. Raising change records and executing activity while adhering to client’s processes and procedures.
 Configuration and Integration of Confidential Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.1.
 Configuring, making policy’s, troubleshoot and upgraded ASA, Palo Alto, Confidential and Checkpoint Firewalls for clients.
 Experience working on NetMRI, Infoblox, Tufin & Panorama Pan firewalls and Onecloud.
 Opened, resolved, or updated Tier II Support tickets for Manage Firewall clients.
 Provided Manage Firewall Clients' with regular status reports of their trouble tickets
 PCI Control Case Security certification responsibility.

Security engineer at Combined Group Contracting Co
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2013 to January 2019

I was responsible for the Implementing and Trouble-Shooting Network Devices for all combined group Data-Centers, includes:

•Configure and Trouble-Shooting Core Switch Layer ( NEXUS 7K, CAT 6500, CAT 9000)
•Configure and Trouble-Shooting Distribution Layer (4500)
•Configure and Trouble-Shooting Access Layer (3850, 3560, 2960, 3750)
•Configure and Trouble-Shooting Security Devices (FortiGate, Forti-Analyzer, Cisco ASA, Cisco ISE)
•Configure and Trouble-Shooting Cisco Wireless Network (Including WLC and Access Points)

in- addition to using Network Monitoring Tools to Check Network Devices Health and Performance. To maintain the level of the agreed SLA.

Network Engineer at FAST Telecommunication Co
  • January 2013 to January 2014

, install, Trouble-shoot (Security, Routing and Switching, Collaboration) Projects using Different Vendors for Different Clients, these projects were including the below Vendors and models.
•Implementing Routing and Switching Devices (All Cisco Routers Models, All Cisco Switches Models).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering
  • at Helwan University
  • May 2011

Degree in

Specialties & Skills

Windows Network Administration
Network Systems
Network Hardware
Network Modeling
CISCO ROUTERS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
ROUTERS
SWITCHES
TROUBLESHOOTING
ADVERTISING
DOCUMENTATION
FIREWALLS

Memberships

Kuwait engineering society
  • membership
  • January 2021

Training and Certifications

Network Security Professional 4 fortigate (Certificate)
Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core certificate (Certificate)
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer certificate (Certificate)
CCIE wrriten (Certificate)