Network & Security Administrator
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Overview
Mr. Syed Baqar Raza is highly accomplished Network and Security Engineer with 14 years of experience in significant design, support, administration and implementation of network projects. Proven ability to manage all phases of installation, monitoring, and administration. Mr. Syed Baqar Raza is a highly motivated team player with strongly analytical and problem solving skills and ability to work independently and as a team. He loves to take new challenges and adopt new technologies.
Areas of Expertise and Technical Skills
Cisco Products
Configuration, Management, Administration and Trouble Shooting of Cisco Router, ASA firewall and switches.
Cisco Router
Cisco Switch
Cisco Firewall
Cisco Routers 1700/ 1800 / 2600 / 2800 / 2900 / ASR1001-X series.
Cisco Switches 3750X, 4500X, Core Switch
Cisco PIX 501 / 506 and ASA 5505 / 5510 / 5520 firewalls
Juniper Products
Configuration, Management, Administration and Trouble Shooting of Juniper Router, SRX, Firewalls, switches, IDPs, WAN Accelerators & Network Security Manager.
Juniper Router
Juniper Router MX104 / M7i / J4300, J4350/ J2300, J2350 Series.
Juniper Switch
Juniper EX Series Switches
Juniper Firewall
Juniper Firewall SRX550, SRX650, SRX3400/ ISG-1000 & 2000/ SSG-550M/ NS-50
IDS/IPS
Juniper IDP-50/ SRX3400 IPS / Network Security Manager
3Com Manageable Switch
Configuration of 3300, 4400, 4210, 4500, 5500 & 7750 Core Switch
Routing Protocols
RIP / OSPF / BGP
VPNs
GRE / IPSec / SSL
VLANs
Securing VLANs/ STP / RSTP / Etherchannel/ switch access
Network Tools & Technologies
OpUtils/ PRTG/ SolarWinds Orion NTA, NPM/ 3cDeamon/ WireShark/ Rsyslog
Fluke Networks Optiview Series
Configuring Integrated Network Analyzer (INA), Optiview Console, WAN Analyzer, workgroup Analyzer and Protocol Expert.
Microsoft Server
Microsoft Windows Servers 2000 / 2003 / 2008
Operating Systems
Windows 98/00/NT/03/XP & Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
LINUX
RedHat / CentOs
Antivirus
McAfee / Symantec / Kaspersky
Experience
Network Administrator.
Strategic Organization
Description: It’s a Federal Government Strategic Organization having multiple Sites with Paperless environment.
Role & Responsibility: Network Administrator.
Involved in all phases of Designing and Implementation of Network infrastructure.
Worked on Multi-vendor platform with Cisco & Juniper firewalls requesting net flow & Jflow for security compliance and pushing firewall rules after approval and troubleshoot incidents as required.
Administering & designing LANs, WANs internet/intranet networks.
Communicating with business analyst and senior managers.
Technical proposals, installations and configurations.
Keep accurate and current backup files of all important data on the shared corporate network.
Involved in Network Designing, Routing, DNS, IP Subnetting, and TCP/IP protocol.
Deploying and Managing Site-to-Site IPSec VPN policies.
Configuring Juniper's Intrusion Detection Prevention (IDP) in inline mode.
Network Analysis, maintenance and troubleshooting ( Cisco, Juniper, HP, 3Com core and access products ).
Monitor of Data center & Edge Firewalls,
Performed network administration tasks such as creation and management of VLANS, Portsecurity, Trunking, STP, Inter-VLAN routing, and LAN security.
Configuring L3 and L4 manageable Cisco, 3com and HP switches.
Administration & Configuration of Juniper Network & Security Manager for centralized management and security logs of Juniper devices.
Administration & Configuration of Juniper’s WAN Accelerator (WXC250, WXC500).
Hardening of Data center and Edge Firewall.
Dynamic and Static Routing between Head office and Remote sites.
Dealt with monitoring tools like network packet capture tools like Wire-shark, etc.
Administration & Monitoring of SolarWinds Orion NPM/NTA and performance reporting.
Configuring and Managing Fluke Networks Optiview Series for analyzing LAN and WAN.
Provide technical advice to colleagues
Education/Certifications/Trainings
Education:
Bcom Federal Urdu University Karachi .
Certifications:
CISCO Certified Network Associate
Cisco ID: CSCO11386003
CISCO Certified Network Associate (Security)
Cisco ID: CSCO11386003
Juniper Network Certified Internet Associate-ER
Juniper Certified ID: JPR30889
Prometric ID: sr3139932
Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist-ER
Juniper Certified ID: JPR30889
Prometric ID: sr3139932
Juniper Network Certified Internet Associate-EX
Juniper Certified ID: JPR30889
Prometric ID: sr3139932
Trainings:
Cisco Certified Network Associate.
Etronics solution provider, Gulshan, Karachi.
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Security).
Etronics solution provider, Gulshan, Karachi.
Cisco SNAF Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals.
Etronics solution provider, Gulshan, Karachi.
Juniper’s (Advanced Juniper Networks IPSec VPN Implementations) AJVI.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Firewalls/IPSec VPNs with High-Performance Networks) IFVH.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Configuring Juniper Networks Firewall/IPSec VPN Products) CJFV.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Attack Prevention with Juniper. Networks Firewalls) APJF.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (JUNOS ROUTING ESSENTIALS) JRE.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (JUNOS for Security Platforms) JSEC.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Advanced Junos Security) AJSEC.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Junos Intrusion Prevention Systems) JIPS.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
Juniper’s (Junos Unified Threat Management) JUTM.
Sponsored By Organization at Spectrum FZ LLC, Dubai.
ISA Server 2004 MOM Server 2005
Sponsored By Organization and organized by KalSoft.
Microsoft Operation Management Server 2005
Sponsored By Organization and organized by KalSoft.
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