Nabeel Adil Ahmed
Erbil
Summary
Successful Senior Network Engineer accomplished in managing enterprise-wide networks for large-scale operations. Plan, implement and continuously improve infrastructure and controls to stay on top of changing operational and security demands. Expert in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Diversely-skilled Senior Network Engineer with 9 years installing and maintaining secure, efficient networking architectures. Deeply knowledgeable in every stage of network installation, upgrade, optimization and management. Seasoned expert at guiding network and personnel performance to boost department-wide contributions. Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
Languages
Work History
Sr. Network Engineer
Golden Cloud
08.2023 - Current
- Managing and Configuring Cisco Switches, Routers, FPR and Fortigate Firewalls.
- Configuring and install hardware and software required to conduct network penetration testing.
- Experience in infrastructure strategies, hardware/software, security and networking products.
- Experience with configuring, supporting and troubleshooting security products including Cisco Fortigate Firewalls.
- Provisioned VPN Tunnels, Site to Site VPN for Clients.
- Provide on call support and created documentation on the issues solved.
- IOS upgrade and router hardening for routers and switches.
- Investigated and resolved network issue using troubleshooting skills .
- · Responsible for remote sites connectivity via VPN/Site to Site/IPsec, GRE, DMVPN.
- Maintained and supported daily, weekly, and monthly backups for servers and network configurations.
- Experience in the CCTV project, which includes Switches, Routers and Firewalls.
- Managed network monitoring tools like Solarwinds.
- Experience in managing and maintaining Nexus 9300 and 7000 series.
- Installed, supported and maintained company hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices.
- Worked on physical site to gather the information of all network devices for device onboard program.
- Configuring and troubleshooting different protocols such as Static routing, VLAN routing, OSPF and BGP.
- Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks.
- Hands on experience on the F5-LTM Products .
- Assisted senior engineers in testing and troubleshooting when system failure occurs.
IP Network Supervisor
Tnet Fiber
09.2019 - 08.2023
- Worked on different networking concept and routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and other LAN/WAN technologies.
- Implemented network security measures to minimize data loss.
- Performed day-to-day LAN and WAN administration, maintenance, and support.
- Maintained network hardware and software and monitored network to support network availability to end users.
- Monitored system performance and responded to alerts.
- Configured and troubleshot routing protocols Cisco REP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, EVPN, and IP/MPLS, VRF L3VPN and L2VPN EVPN for backbone and backhaul networks.
- Assisted in deploying network devices and services, including load balancers, Cisco routers, switches, firewalls (FTD Firepower), LAN, VPN, MPLS, Radius, and TACACS+
- Set up and managed site-to-site and remote VPNs (SSL) on Cisco Firepower Firewalls and Router devices.
- Conducted network monitoring and analysis using tools like SolarWinds and implemented Layer 2 security via 802.1x port-based authentication with Cisco ISE.
- Managed network operations: troubleshooting connectivity, maintaining routers, firewalls, switches, user management, and performing backups and restores
- Documented network issues and solutions and designed a network for a CCTV project with 3,000 cameras centralized for two cities.
Network Engineer
Korek Telecom
10.2015 - 09.2019
- Installed, deployed, and troubleshot firewall technologies, including Fortigate Firewalls.
- Configured various Cisco Switches (N9K-C93180YC-EX, N7K, 29XX, 9200, 9300, 6500) with VTP, Layer 3 Routing, Ether Channel, and Spanning Tree Protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST).
- Responsible for remote sites connectivity via VPN/Site to Site/IPsec, GRE, DMVPN.
- Implemented and supported Set up site-to-site IPSEC and Remote SSL VPNs network tunnels on Fortigate Firewalls
- Worked on different networking concept and routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and other LAN/WAN technologies.
- Proficient with IP access list, Cisco Discovery Protocol(CDP), Static Routing, Network Address Translation(NAT), VLAN Trunking Protocol(VTP) and HSRP.
- Configured Cisco Routers (ASR9000, ASR1000, NCS-5500, C9500-32QCA) and managed routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, IPsec).
- Utilized FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer for maintaining and optimizing FortiGate firewalls..
- Configured and managed Cisco access layer routers and Switches and carried out route redistribution and manipulated route updates using distribute lists, route-maps and administrative distance and offset-lists.
- Co-ordinate with Data Network and Security team and come up with possible solutions.
- Monitored and troubleshot IP/MPLS, VRF MPLS L3VPN, and L2VPNs for backbone networks.
- Upgraded IOS on various Cisco Routers and Switches.
- Perform upgrades on existing networks equipment to resolve various network problems.
- Experienced with IT management and monitoring tools like SolarWinds.
- Experienced in troubleshooting VLAN, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) and Switch Trunk and IP subnet issues.
- Experienced with F5 BigIP Load Balancers (LTM) for web and database applications.
International Roaming \ IREG Team Leader
Korek Telecom
05.2010 - 10.2015
- Completing IR documents (GSM (IR24), GPRS (IR35), CAMEL (IR32, IR60)) required for IREG Testing completion.
- Troubleshoot on IREG / Network Issues by identifying though SS7 and GPRS traces or the node in the network that is at fault.
- Coordinate IREG Activities with other operators IREG/Network Engineers and schedule the tests.
- Defining the requirement information GT and IMSI for the user SIM cards in HLR , MSC and SGSN.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical / Electronic And Communication
University of Mosul
Mosul, Iraq07.2009
Skills
- Firewall management NGFWs, FortiManager, Cisco Firepower, Cisco FMC
- Internet Protocol Suite (TPC/IP)
- Solarwinds IT Management Software & Monitoring Tool
- IP/MPLS, BGP, L3VPN, L2VPNs, OSPF & IS-IS
- Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Network Security Implementation
- Network Infrastructure Design
- Cisco switching expertise
- Data Center Networking
- IP Addressing and Subnetting
- Verbal and written communication
- Proactive and team player
Certification
- Cisco Certification Network Professional R&S (CCNP)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Cyber Ops (CCNA)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center (CCNA)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate R&S (CCNA)
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