Tahir Ali
IT Network Security Engineer
Dubai
Summary of Career
1. I am an IT Professional, having more than 8+ years of GCC Experience in the Field of IT Network Infrastructure and Security Operations and Configuration.
2. Proven ability as a team motivator, with strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills. Excellent written and oral presentation skills. Energetic, goal oriented, flexible, self-motivated and a team player
3. I have a strong technical background, experience of configuring and deploying various vendors firewalls like CISCO, Fortinet and Paloalto
4. Time Management
5. Team Management
6. Well Verse Organize and Talented
7. Passionate towards IT Innovation
8. IT Virtualization
9. Infrastructure Maintenance and Operations
10. End point security
Experience as Network Engineer (NOC)
04 March 2010
23 August 2012
Responsible for all the operations of RDNE(Replacementof
Data Network Equipment’s, 300+ Switches, 200 Routers)
project.
2. Team leader, assigning daily task to group members and create the daily report as per
the task completion/pending.
3. Offshores Network Maintenance and Operations.
4. ISO 20000/27001 best practices for ITSM/ISMS services management.
5. Discovering Uplinks to Distribution and Core Layer of the ARAMCO Network.
6. Providing Post Migration and Pre Migration services to the clients.
7. Involved in Migration of the services & devices during off hours.
8. Creating Daily and Monthly field Reports and escalate L2 issues to High level
management if any.
Experience as Sr Network and System Engineer
02 January 2013
20 January 2016
Remote Sites Connectivitythru ISP Cloud via BGP and MPLS Protocols.
2. Security Patch and vulnerability management.
3. Designing and Deployment of Access and Distribution Layers switches/firewall and
Routers.
4. Operations and Maintenance for Network Infrastrucutre and Security appliances.
5. Configuration and deployments Palo Alto Network and Fortiget Firewall.
6. Bluecoat Proxy and Cisco WSA Proxy full deployment.
7. Create Network assessment documentation and updating the same Monthly.
8. Following ITIL life cycle while delivering services to the customers.
Experience as IT Supervisor and Sr Network Engineer
M E Development LLC
02 January 2014
12 April 2018
1. Creating Technical documentations (HLD,LLD) and Project execution & implementation.
2. Configuration and maintenance of Cisco Routing and Switching domain.
3. To coordinate the timely repair and return to service of any faulty systems or items of
equipment.
4. Configuration and troubleshooting F5-LTM and Peplink Load balancer.
5. Securely deployment and configuration of Symantic and Mcafee End Point Protection.
6. Installing and Patching various security appliances and services like AV/Firewalls/EPS.
7. Experience with network monitoring systems (such as Cacti/Cisco CNA,SolarWind NPM).
8. Establish and implement procedures to ensure the backup of data in any IT system.
9. Rebuild data corrupted by either hardware or software faults.
10. Coordinate the investigation and timely handling of any software fault reports or
enhancement requests.
11. Provide manuals on the use of any IT systems and incorporate those manuals into the
relevant operating procedures of the hotel.
12. Arrange the distribution of Audit and other regularly system-produced reports.
13. Establish necessary security measures to prevent unauthorized access to the IT Services.
14. Provide technical assistance to Internal or External Audit staff.
15. Planning, designing and configuring IP addressing scheme for different topologies
16. Following the complete process of ITIL incident and Problem management.
17. Planning, configuration and management of routing i.e. RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP
18. NAT and ACL implementations and Traffic Policing.
19. Implementation of filters using Standard and Extended Access Lists.
20. Cisco and Paloalto network firewalls deployment and configurations.
Bachelor 25 February 2009
Bachelor Degree.Other 04 March 2009
Diploma in Information TechnologyMaster 12 November 2020
Master in Information Technology