Network and Security Engineer

SHAHBAZ AFTAB

Technical Lead / Senior Network Engineer

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Email: *******.*********@*****.*** Cell: 058-******* Visa Status: Transferable Iqama

Availability: Immediately

PERSONAL SUMMARY

Senior Network Engineer with 6+ year of proven experience in providing solutions, implementation, network designing, a configuration of routers, switches and firewalls, troubleshooting of complex network system. Experience in designing, configuring, implementing and testing of LAN, WAN and Data Center Solutions from Network point of view. Now looking for challenging and experience Network Engineer position. Technical Skills

Routing and Switching: Static, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Route redistribution, VLAN, VTP, Ether channels, STP (PVST+, RSTP, MST), HSRP, VRRP, Data Center switching (VDC, VPC, OTV, Fabric Path, FEX)

Security: VPNs (IPsec Site to Site, GRE, GRE/IPSEC, SVTI, DVTI, GET VPN, DMVPN, Flex VPN, CEF, LDP, MPBGP, L3 VPN Configurations, MPLS Traffic Engineering)ASA Firewall

(Source NAT, Destination NAT, IPSEC VPN, Security Contexts, Failover, Routing, L2 Firewall, Port channel, Redundant Interfaces, Spanned Mode clustering, Individual Interface Clustering) Cisco Firepower (FTD V6.2.3 and FMC v6.2.3) Cisco ESA (Content filtering, Message filtering, DLP, Access Control Policing, AMP, URL Filtering)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Computer Engineering (2008 2012)

University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila

CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Routing and Switching)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (Routing and Switching)

Cisco Certified Design Professional(Architecture)

Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENDESIGN)

Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks(WTshoot) Cisco ID: CSCO12405868

WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Lead, Advance Technical Services

Wateen Telecom Limited, Pakistan Jan 2017 – Sep 2019

Providing technical services to different enterprise customers and insight to current network projects.

Coordinate with Cisco TAC in case of higher level escalation on behalf of Wateen for technical as well as for hardware support.

Bank of Punjab Data Center Upgradation and Migration for VPN, B2B, Internet and Core segment.

Data Center network design, Implementation and Support in Primary and DR.

Troubleshooting the day to day Network issues in existing deployed Data Center, designing and implementation of any network change as per customer new requirements.

Team Lead, Managed Services

Wateen Telecom Limited, Pakistan July 2014 – Dec 2016

Lead a team of 10 Resident engineers located in different regions of Pakistan engaged for various customers of Wateen.

Worked with Wateen ATS (Advance Technical Solutions) teams for project designing, implementation and deployment as per customer requirement.

24/7 Network Configurations and hardware support for Wateen corporate and enterprise customers.

Coordination with different departments including Sale, Project Management, SDS field Teams and packet team for successful deployment and to fulfill Customer requirement.

Network Engineer, Managed Services

Wateen Telecom Limited, Pakistan Dec 2013 – June 2014

Dedicated on PLRA Project in Customer premises.

Designing and Implementation of whole PLRA Project from scratch throughout the Punjab as per customer requirements.

Troubleshooting on PLRA LAN, WAN, Internet and B2B segment. PROJECTS

PLRA (Provincial Land Record Authority) Data Center Deployment and Support

PLRA DC Deployment on primary as well as on DR. End to end reachability of branches and Server farms.

Deployment of Internet, VPN and Data Segment for internet, DC and branch to branch communication respectively.

24/7 Hardware and network change support to deployed Data Center as per customer requirements.

Network Equipment Deployed:

Cisco ASR 1004

Cisco ASA 5585-X

Cisco Firepower v6.2.3

Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) v6.2.3

Cisco Nexus 2K, 5K and 7K

BOP(The Bank of Punjab) Data Center Deployment and Support

Deployment of 4 network segments including VPN, B2B, Internet and Core.

Implementation of smooth, redundant and secure Infrastructure design for data center.

Deployment of Primary and DR infrastructure in case of hardware or any software failure.

Network Equipment Deployed:

Cisco Routers 3925, ISR 4331

Cisco ASA 5515-X, ASA 5525-X

Cisco Firepower v6.2.2

Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) v6.2.2

Cisco Catalyst Switches 2960, 3750 and 4500

Cisco ESA (Email Security Appliance) and SMA

PLRA branches Configuration and Support

Deployment of 150+ branches as per network perspective

Deployment of LAN and WAN configuration on the behalf of Customer.

Communication with ISPs and different deployment team for smooth delivery of project and support.

Network Equipment Deployed:

Huawei 22xx

Cisco 2800, 2950

ROD branches deployment and Support

Deployment of Cisco and Huawei routers and Switches on more than 60 branches of ROD.

Volunteer Experience:

Working as CCNA CCNP and MPLS Trainer.

Reference:

Will be provided on demand.

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