Abdul Ghaffar

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CISO / DevOPS / DevSecOps @ MHA GLOBAL LTD
london, greater london, united kingdom
Abdul Ghaffar's Location
Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan, Pakistan
About Abdul Ghaffar

- IT Infrastructure on Amazon, Azure, STC Cloud, OVH and Inhouse Data Center- IOT Infrastructure Deployments- Virtualization – VMware, ESXi, HyperV, Open Stack- Microsoft Dynamics AX R3 , Servers, Exchange, Team Foundation, IT, SQL & Oracle Deployments- IDS /IPS, Log Analysis, DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) and Server Monitoring Deployments and Application Performance Tracing.- IP telephony Deployments- Cyber Security SIEM and SOC.- Backup & Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Risk Assessment, Antivirus (Malwarebytes, CrowdStrike)- Application Scan, Pen Testing, OWASP, Acunetix, Tenable, Microfocus (Open Text) etc, . - Puppet, Jenkins and CI / CD tools- SAN (MD 3820F), NAS Netgear, HP Storage management and deployments

Abdul Ghaffar's Current Company Details
MHA GLOBAL LTD

Mha Global Ltd

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CISO / DevOPS / DevSecOps
london, greater london, united kingdom
Website:
mhagloballtd.com
Employees:
3
Abdul Ghaffar Work Experience Details
  • Mha Global Ltd
    Devops And Cybersecurity
    Mha Global Ltd Nov 2023 - Present
    Pakistan
    • Contribute to the development and optimization methodologies and processes.• Planning and Implementation of System Backups and Restore.• Capacity and performance monitoring for DataCenter.• Debugging and Applying fixes found in collected log.• Conduct risk assessments and vulnerability testing on internal systems and networks• Provide leadership and guidance to other departments on security policies, Security audits, Data classification and protection.• Experienced with the most common operating systems management and monitoring such as Linux, Unix and Windows Server• Experience with basic bash/shell and powershell scripting.• Experience with networking protocols and tools (SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/UDP, FTP, SSH, SCP and networking stacks (TCP/IP and OSI).• Cloud related infrastructure deployments / tools experience is a plus (Azure, AWS, Office 365 ).• Patching, as necessary, to the latest Service Patch and updating the SSL Certificate.• Managed system updates and upgrades.• Experience with network behavior anomaly detection tools such as Darktrace or similar.• Experience with firewalls, UTMs,network traffic, IDS, security logs, NG Firewalls and proxies such as: PaloAlto, Checkpoint, Sonicwall, Cisco similar.• Wazuh (basic) , Acutenix, Nessus, Tenable, WASP and other similar tools used to find vulnerability and solutions for CVE's.• Project Lead on Data Leakage Prevention DLP, Employee Monitoring System (EMS) system and Server Monitoring.• Conduct security awareness training to employees and stakeholders to improve security awareness and promote best practices.• Monitor security logs, review firewall rules and policies and investigate security incidents.• Designed and implemented ticketing system for IT and security operations.• Conducted in-depth analysis of security logs, network traffic, and system behavior to detect and respond to incidents.
  • Solutiondot
    System Administrator / Devops
    Solutiondot Nov 2017 - Nov 2023
    Lahore, Pakistan
  • Solutiondot
    System Specialist / Devops
    Solutiondot Nov 2015 - Nov 2023
    Punjab, Pakistan
    Management of Microsoft Azure and AWS Amazon elastic cloud instances i.e. creation and termination of AMI's , auto scaling. Installation and configurations AMI's and necessary tool for production environments and include following.• Main Projects: ERP (HR, Finance, Marketing etc) and IOT . • Designed and implemented 80+ nodes LAN with DC, DNS, DHCP, VPN, ICT policies, antivirus solutions, Backup, disaster recovery plan with secure network infrastructure. • Initiated, leaded and implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP)• Initiated & deployed IOT and set it up for client.• Initiated DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) development and testing as Lead.• Initiated and lead application development for Server Monitoring Tools for clients.• Amazon EC2, SES, RDS, SNS, Beanstalk, Route53, Code Deploy, Load Balancer, Auto Scale• Project Management,• Managed DLP , Employee Monitoring and AI application development.• Managed Inhouse Data Center for clients hosting.• Managed ERP deployments and Team Coordination.
  • Vendevo Pvt. Limited
    System Administrator / Devops
    Vendevo Pvt. Limited Jan 2011 - Nov 2015
    Lahore Office
    Configuring DC, DNS, DHCP, E-mail, Share point, Cisco Routers, Asterisk, VOIP , VPN, Remote Assistance, Source Control or Subversion, VM's and Cloud, ICT policies / Risk Assessment / Backup & Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Exchange 2013, Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics AX ( test server ).Management of Microsoft Azure and AWS Amazon elastic cloud instances i.e. creation and termination of AMI's , auto scaling. Installation and configurations AMI's and necessary tool for production environments and include following.• Main Projects: ERP (HR, Finance, Marketing etc) and IOT . • Designed and implemented 80+ nodes LAN with DC, DNS, DHCP, VPN, ICT policies, antivirus solutions, Backup, disaster recovery plan with secure network infrastructure. • Initiated, leaded and implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP)• Initiated & deployed IOT and set it up for client.• Initiated DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) development and testing as Lead.• Initiated and lead application development for Server Monitoring Tools for clients.• Amazon EC2, SES, RDS, SNS, Beanstalk, Route53, Code Deploy, Load Balancer, Auto Scale • Virtualization – VMware, Hyper V • Hyper-V with 50 Dev VM Servers, 40 Amazon and STC cloud servers) • Dell and HP server (DEL R710, R610, and R620 Servers) • Configured Dell Storage MD 3800F Fiber Storage with 24TB storage • GitHub, Heroku, Amazon, Goddady, Media Temple, Rackspace, Clients servers and JIRA. • Managing Fiber and Wireless links with auto failover • Worked on Nagios, Zabbix, newrelic, MyDLP, Sophos, site24x7 , squid, mikrotik and pfsense • Develop and maintain corporate IT policies regarding the execution and testing of information storage, system back-ups, and recovery. Voice & VPN. • Implement and audit security for both corporate headquarters and offsite locations pertaining to account use and allowed access to network resources.
  • It24
    Network Administrator
    It24 Feb 2006 - Dec 2010
    It24.Com Lahore Office
    Main clients: Calling Cards and Outbound Marketing• Implemented the Network (using Windows 2000 / XP / Vista/Windows 7/2003 /2008 and Linux (Red Hat and Fedora) and managed these Operating Systems. • Configuring and Managing ISA server 2004 / 2006. • SQL Server, Oracle server and Clients, MS Office, Visual studio. Net/ .Net 2003, Borland C, Turbo C, Delphi Code Gear 2007/2010, Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, McAfee and Utilities for virus remover, and other utilities etc. • Troubleshooting, Configuring and installing Hardware and Provided technical help. • Taking Backups of VSS, SQL server and Routine Backups. • Managing the production servers of US office and Clients servers. • Managed the database servers and Web servers on production and worked on performance issues of IIS and SQL server and managed the bottle necks server wide. • Managed the hosting of servers on production from scratch. • Team coordination and collaboration with US management and PK office. • Worked on MS Exchange 2003 and CMS systems to manage our sites. • Worked on VSS project repositories and Migrated VSS 2005 to TFS 2012 all projects. • Windows 2008 servers with sql server 2005 and sql server 2008
  • Mps Call Center
    Network Administrator
    Mps Call Center Mar 2004 - Feb 2006
    • Implemented the Network (using Windows 2000, 2003 / Red hat Linux OS (Fedora Core 4, Red hat). • Configuring and Managing Domain Controller (Windows 2003), DNS, DHCP and RIS server. • Configured the network for 32 seat call center with Voice and Computer workstations. • Configuring and Managing ISA server 2000 and 2004. • Setup the monitoring system with DVR to monitor floor. • Configure Quintum Router to distribute call from Asterisk to CSR’s. • Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003. • Management of Call Manager Software, Managing web sites, Call center training for new CSR’s. • Troubleshooting, Configuring and installing Hardware and CSR systems. • Monitor Internet Traffic. • Providing Technical Help to Customer Support Representatives (CSR’s). • Managing DSL links for Voice and Data. • Configure devices for Voice Termination (VOIP), ATA 186, Quintum, Linux Based PBX (Asterisk).
  • Mu Lahore
    Computer Hardware Lab Assistant
    Mu Lahore Jan 2001 - Nov 2002
    My responsibilities were to provide support for Network and Computers maintenance. Changing power supplies, Main boards, Hard drive and RAM. Whole network had 120 computers and 8 network switches and was three story building including offices and class rooms.

Abdul Ghaffar Education Details

  • Mu Lahore
    Mu Lahore
    3.0
  • Petroman College
    Petroman College
    Diploma In Computer Hardware
  • Gov'T Shalimar College
    Gov'T Shalimar College
    Math And Physics
  • Corvit Institute
    Corvit Institute
    Linux, Cisco And Windows (Infrastructure)

Frequently Asked Questions about Abdul Ghaffar

What company does Abdul Ghaffar work for?

Abdul Ghaffar works for Mha Global Ltd

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Abdul Ghaffar's current role is CISO / DevOPS / DevSecOps.

What schools did Abdul Ghaffar attend?

Abdul Ghaffar attended Mu Lahore, Petroman College, Gov't Shalimar College, Corvit Institute.

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