AutoSys
Hamza Ahmed
Staten Island,NY
Summary
Seasoned Senior Information Security Engineer. Reliable, resourceful, efficient, and extremely adaptable. Exceptional track record of getting the job done not matter how large, minor, or difficult. Always able to raise and maintain the highest standard of communication, collaboration, and documentation to deliver success within the SLA
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Information Security Engineer
Wells Fargo Bank
New York, NY
08.2018 - Current
- Primary function as part of the distributed systems security LOB is to work with BoKS and provide monitoring logging, and maintenance across all 100,000+ BOKS clients
- Part of rotating on-call where I monitor and respond to all pages and alerts, join Emergency conference lines during emergency high-impact production issue(s)
- Daily tasks include but are not limited to create, track, and work tickets in JIRA, Service Now, generate reports for management on top of project, testing, and designing
- Part of my security responsibility also involves research and remediation of QAULYS vulnerabilities onall 7 of our applications and BoKS infrastructure
- Work with access control systems daily with tools such as BoKS, ACS, Looking Glass, BreakGlass, and in conjunction with other teams and lines of business
- Daily operational work includes access route, host, user, group, and SSH key management
- Performed risk and vulnerability assessments and provided results and recommendations to senior management.
- Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
- Validated and verified system security requirements definitions and analyzed system security designs.
- Liaised with third parties to respond to security events and understand threat landscape.
- Enhanced employee awareness of information security best practices through regular training sessions and workshops.
- Developed customized security solutions based on client requirements that effectively addressed their unique challenges while staying within budget constraints.
Platform Engineer
BNY Mellon
Nashville, TN
09.2015 - 08.2018
- Documented and tracked issues such as logs and audit files to maintain and ensure system efficiency and reliability
- Patched thousands of systems as part of a monthly patching cycle via BladeLogic
- Installed RHEL 6 and 7 on baremetal servers Dell Poweredge R610 and HP Proliant
- 24x7 on call production support troubleshooting all categories of issues via the RT ticketing system
- Utilized LVM for management of both physical and logical volumes including creating, maintaining, configuring, and resizing LVM volumes
- Configured and fixed TCP/IP, network cards, and network connectivity issues
- Installed, configured, and administered network servers such as DNS, DHCP, NIS, and NFS
- Installed, configured, and implemented LDAP client configurations for user authentication
- Enforced user and group permissions, password policies, directory ownership, and sudo access
- Configured and troubleshooted connections to SSH via baremetal servers or through SSH clients like PuTTY and VCenter
- Administered VM ESXi hosts 5.5, 6.0, and baremetal servers via VCenter, Vmotion, VMWare HA, and clusters
- Initialized VMWare infrastructure via Vrealize Orchestrator in addition to having created templates to clone and spin up virtual machines then often installed VMWare tools on multiple virtual machines
- Utilized crontab and shell scripts to schedule and automate repetitive jobs
- Created and edited BASH scripts for automation of log rotations and log backups
- Monitored performance for troubleshooting sluggish/unresponsive servers
- Installed, configured, and maintained Apache servers
- Managed network troubleshooting applications TCP/IP including Ethernet, IP addressing subnetting and routing
- Configured hardware components related to storage, memory, and CPU utilization based on environmental requirements
- Implemented daily, weekly, and monthly NetBackup with Symantec
Linux Systems Admin
Verizon
Branchburg Township, NJ
10.2013 - 07.2015
- Accountable for keeping servers and infrastructure up and running on RedHat servers and on the virtual platforms via ESXi hosts
- Implemented various IAM roles and groups as needed and specified
- Load balanced network cards to ensure optimal network performance
- Maintained servers via configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible
- Configured various hardware RAID levels on HP and Dell servers (Proliant and R series)
- Implemented passwordless authentication via SSH Keys as well as configuring, troubleshooting networking, network connectivity and SSH Keys
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues using tools such as TCP dump and Wireshark
- Managed and maintained iptables on UNIX systems based on global and local firewall rules
- Monitored system performances via top, vmstat, TCP dump, and Nagios
- Created, configured, and troubleshooted NFS servers with autofs
- Administered networking TCP/IP
- DNS, SSH, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches and LAN
- Attached NAS and DAS storage to UNIX and ESXi servers
Education
Undergrad - Computer Science
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NYSkills
- Technologies - AutoSys, BoKS, Channel Secure, Confluence, F5, GitHub, Grafana, Jira, Netcool, Remedy, Splunk, uDeploy, Venafi, Zabbix
- Operating Systems - Red Hat, CentOS, Cisco, Solaris, Windows, VMware, ESX/ESXi, vCenter
- Networks - LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, LDAP, VLAN, NIC Bonding, VPC
- Languages - Bash, Python, SQL
- Soft Skills - Adaptability, Excellent Verbal and Written Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Extremely Collaborative, Outstanding Troubleshooting
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft - January 10th, 2025
Accomplishments
- Spearheaded several projects. Migrated 7 security applications to approved F5 solution, automated reporting for IAM audit on PAM change requests, Automated Oracle and MongoDB keytab creation with an Ansible playbook, etc.
- Achieved promotion to Senior Information Security Engineer by supervising and training 4 new team members.
- Shared Success with team by designing, testing, and implementing BCP plans for all 7 of our applications post datacenter wide outage.
- Collaborated with team of 20+ in the development of Keytab creation automation.
- Achieved full approval on 5 Policy Governance exceptions through effectively collaborating with multiple teams and addressing over 50 arbitrations in record time.
Work Availability
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Affiliations
- Wells Fargo
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig WorkWork Location
RemoteImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionPaid time offQuote
The cave you fear to enter contains the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell
Software
Ansible
BoKS
Channel Secure
CyberArk
Confluence
AppViewX
GitHub
Jira
MySQL
Service Now
Splunk
Qualys
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
Venafi
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Urdu
Native or Bilingual
Interests
Gaming
Traveling
Food
Movies
Sports
Cooking
Timeline
Senior Information Security Engineer
Wells Fargo Bank
08.2018 - Current
Platform Engineer
BNY Mellon
09.2015 - 08.2018
Linux Systems Admin
Verizon
10.2013 - 07.2015
Undergrad - Computer Science
Brooklyn College
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