Accomplished Senior Network Engineer with 10+ years experience in using Cisco, Juniper, Maipu, Fortinet and Alcatel routers, switches and firewalls. Work focuses on planning, designing, installing, configuring, administrating and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN with networks security. Supervised both contract workers and permanent personnel. Strong communication skills that allow me to interface at all levels for the completion of projects and in offering technical support to other employees. Team player who excels both in groups and working independently with minimal supervision.
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Maintain and optimize firewalls using UTM funtions of Cisco ASA Firepowerand Fortigate Devices
Improve network optimization by successfully implementing network performance management products for company’s infrastructure. [Solarwind, WhatsUP Gold, EZcacti, Syslogs, Traps].
Implement redundancy / Auto Fail-over using L2 & L3 technologies. (IP-SLA, Flex link, HA).
Create Policy-based routing, Ether-Channel, ACL & Port security.
Administor all network communications equipment.
Implemented 2-Factor authentication (Forti tokens) on Fortinet Authenticator for LDAP users.
Configure IPSec VPN Site-to-Site & Remote Access (Dialup).
Maintain Cisco wireless controllers WLC for binding Mac-addresses and appliedACLs to provide necessary ports within LAN segment.
Configure Web/URL filtering, Email and DLP archiving in Fortinet firewall, allowing and restricting specific domains for individual users as per company's policies.
Provide technical presentation and explanation to the customers & technical team to facilitate business.
Coordinate with different vendors for SLA / RMA activities and ISPs for L2 & dark core links.
Monitor IPSEC/GRE tunnels connectivity among HO, DR, ISB and LHR Offices using different NMS Servers.
Analyze and verify overall logs (Traffic, Application, URL, Email and DLP in FortiAnalyzer
Verifying all devices and dark core link's status and documenting check list on daily basis
- Maintain and Configure Virtualization in Windows & Linux environment using VMware Hypervisor VSphere Esxi 5.0 / 5.5.
- Configure Data Center and host configuration in VCenter5.
- Avaya IP Phone PABX server installation and configuration of IP Phones using IP Office Manager.
- Configuration and installation of Blade Servers [Dell, HP & IBM].
- Troubleshooting and configuration of Chassis in Blade Server.
- Configuration of redundant Active Directory in windows server environment with FSMO rules.
- Configuring RAID Controller [Raid Level 0,1,5,10].
- Monitoring in GFI Web Monitoring / Filtering.
- Supervising GCS NOC team, maintaining NMS, MRTG, PRTG.
- Setup patch panel, cable manager and rack Management.
- Juniper Firewall Configuration and test penetration.
• System Side (Past in GCS)
o GCS Internal Network Design and Server installation / Configuration.
o Install, Configure and Monitoring of DNS Server, Active Directory, DHCP, WDS, File Services, DFS and Print Services.
o Install, Configure and Monitoring Forefront TMG 2010, Firewall Rules, Malware Inspection, Web Proxy, Web Caching, HTTPS Inspection, URL Filtering, TMG Client for Proxy Server.
o Monitoring of IP AVAYA phone.
o Install and Configure Solarwind Orion 10 for SNMP Monitoring GCS Internal network.
o Maintain and Configure Virtualization in Windows & Linux environment using VMware Hypervisor VSphere Esxi 5.0 / 5.5
o Avaya IP Phone PABX server installation and configuration of IP Phones using IP Office Manager.
o Configuration and installation of Blade Servers [Dell, HP & IBM].
o Troubleshooting and configuration of Chassis in Blade Server.
o Configuration of redundant Active Directory in windows server environment with FSMO rules.
o Configuring RAID Controller [Raid Level 0,1,5,10]
o Configuration of SAN and RAID Levels.
o Virtualization of Servers (Type 1 & Type 2 Both)
o Installation and configuration of Vmware Vcenter server 5 / Vsphere 5 hypervisor.
• Pure Networking (GCS Metro Network L2) (Present in GCS)
o Configure Metro Network Layer 2 in Maipu Switches S4300, S4100 and S3100.
o Monitoring and provide support to GCS Clients for both (Manageable & Dark Core Fiber)
o Configure and Monitoring SNMP of Maipu Switches using Cacti Server (Linux Based) and Solarwind Engineering Tool and Solarwind Orion 10.
o Monitoring of fiber links.
o Rate Limiting and traffic shapping (Bandwidth Control Port based) o Configuration and Monitoring of VLANS (Trunk and Access Ports). o VLAN Based OSPF routing between POP connectivity.
o Configure and monitor Storm Control, Loopback detection, Flap detection, ErrDisable
o Monitoring of GCS NOC at Shahra-e-Faisal. (AAA, Bandwidth Limitation Port / VLAN Based)
o Port Security and Violation
He is a devoted and hardworking issue resolver.