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Sydney, Nsw, Au

North Ryde, Nsw, Au

Warriewood, Nsw, Au

Working Full time as a Senior Security Engineer for a health care provider (Blackmores Group Ltd.), I am product owner of email security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cloud and Office365. My job duties are included but not limited to protect the Brand reputation by implementing enhanced email security controls and authentication mechanism. Messaging Security and Authentication:-Managing Proofpoint Email Security SaaS platform to ensuring BEC scams, phishing attacks and advanced malware are blocked at entry.-Management of Email Fraud Défense, Implemented DMARC for 245+ domains to restrict spoofing.-Implemented the required email authentication controls (SPF, DKIM) for known email sending partners. -Implemented Hosted SPF for domains where ns-lookup exceed the limits.-Managing Proofpoint Threat Attack Protection and Auto Pull, identifies sophisticated email phishing campaigns containing malicious attachments and links and pulls such emails instantly.-Management and Administration of Abnormal Security, which is a behavioural AI-based email security platform that learns the behaviour of every identity in the cloud email environment and analyses the risk of every event to block the most sophisticated attacks.Microsoft 365 Defender:-Implementation and configuration of Safe Attachments for Emails, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams.-Implementation of Microsoft Defender Antivirus and Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules as per company’s IT Security Policy.-Managing Anti-phishing protection and Real-time detections in Defender for Office 365.-Managing BeyondTrust Privilege Management (EPM) solution, designed and implemented a process to integrate with ServiceNow to automate request process and ensure the compliance of IT Security policies by allowing only business justified request.

Warriewood, Nsw, Au

Working Full time as a Security Engineer for a health care provider (Blackmores Group Ltd.), I am product owner of email security, Microsoft Defender for Microsoft 365. My job duties were included but not limited to protect the Brand reputation by implementing enhanced email security controls and authentication mechanism. Messaging Security and Authentication:Managing Proofpoint Email Security cloud-based cluster ensuring seamless clean email traffic delivery to end user’s mailbox.Managing Proofpoint Threat Attack Protection and Auto Pull, identifies sophisticated email phishing campaigns containing malicious attachments and links and pulls such emails instantly.Microsoft Defender for Endpoint/O365:Implementation and configuration of Safe Attachments for Emails, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft TeamsImplementation of Microsoft Defender Antivirus and ASR policies as per company’s Managing Anti-phishing protection and Real-time detections in Defender for Office 365

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Working as SME for People's Choice, SA (Financial Institute) Administration of EMC VNX 5200 and 5300: Provisioning of Storage for Application, Database Servers, Citrix Farm, VMware Clustering.Patching and Upgrades of the Storage SystemsCIFS Servers and File System Shares Creation and Replication to the Disaster Recovery Sites.Administration of VMware Infrastructure v6.7:Installation, configuration, patching and troubleshooting of ESX and VMware Vsphere servers on clustered environment.Virtualization and Administration of 200+ Windows Servers and Citrix Virtual DesktopsMessaging System:Management and Administration of Exchange Online (M365) and On-Prem (Exchange 2016)Hybrid Configuration Setup with Exchange 2016 to migration 2000+ Exchange mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to M365.Migration of Email Content Filtering from Forcepoint Cloud to Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)Windows Servers Management:Design, Management and Administration of Windows Servers 2016 and Azure Active Directory, DNS and GPOs.Administration and Troubleshooting of Windows Server farm (2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 and 2019), Including vulnerability management of the servers.Primary Key Infrastructure (CA):Responsible for generating CSRs and issuance of new Public and Internal Certificates:Management and Administration of Citrix Environment including Netscalers in GSLBManagement and Administration of Forcepoint Web Content Gateway and Data Leakage and Prevention (DLP) solution.

Lahore, Pk

Managed Core Infrastructure Services including Messaging , Directory Services, Storage, Hosting & Security of Corporate/Financial Websites, Endpoint Security & Configuration Management, Email Security & Sand boxing, DLP, Vulnerability Management, Private Cloud, VDI and many other mission critical services.Major Projects & Achievements;• Planned & Implemented the upgrade of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 active directory domain to Windows 2012 R2 (MCB - 2019)• Upgrade Messaging environment of Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 (MCB - 2019)• Implementation of Data leakage and prevention (Force Point DLP) Solution. (MCB - 2019)• Employee of the Month Award – October (MCB - 2018)• Upgrade to Kaspersky Endpoint Protection for Business Advanced 10,000 Nodes (MCB - 2018)• Implementation of Unicenter CA Service Desk Application v 14.1 upgrade from v 12.6 (MCB - 2018)• Team (Infrastructure Service Management) of the Year Award – December (MCB - 2017)• Employee of the Month Award – April (MCB - 2017)• Audit Performance: Achieved ‘A’ Rating in Ad & Exchange, EPS and Service Desk. (MCB - 2016)• Letter of Appreciation from Microsoft Pakistan for the successful adoption of EOP/ATP (MS - 2016)• VDI deployment for 1500 users using Citrix Xen Server, Xen Desktop, Xen App etc. (MCB - 2015)• Won President Award 2014 for Outstanding Performance (MCB - 2015)• Corporate & Financial websites publishing and security (MCB -2015)• Migration to Exchange online Protection and Advanced Threat Protection (MCB – 2014/16)• Certificate of Appreciation in making the Internet Banking launch a success (MCB - 2014)• Implementation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security Select bank-wide 10,000+ endpoints (MCB-2013)• Implementation of Rapid7’s Nexpose, vulnerability assessment solution (MCB - 2013)• 10,000 Users mailboxes Migration in co-existence, from IBM Lotus Domino to MS Exchange 2010. Implemented DAG, NLB for HUB/CAS & Site resilience (MCB-2013)

Lahore, Punjab, Pk

My key responsibilities were to implement, manage and support IT infrastructure services focused to Microsoft technologies for Allied Bank Pakistan, including active directory domain, Microsoft Exchange 2010 Clusters, Microsoft Hyper-V Clusters, Lync server, DNS, TMG Servers and several critical services. All these services were published for 7000+ users, located in 06 back offices and 800+ branch offices.Key Responsibilities:Management and administration of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Cluster environment (DAG), site resilience, including 14 Exchange Servers, designed to achieve high availability and continuous operations by 24X7 bases. The messaging environment comprises of 08 back-end clusters and 04 front-end HUB Transport servers with over 5 Million messages per week traffic.Implementation and administration of Microsoft Lync Server to provide private instant messaging for real time communications, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 implemented as front end proxy and reverse proxy for OWA, RPC over http.Management and administration of Microsoft SQL 2000 32bit / 2005 64bit enterprise servers Cluster running on Microsoft windows 2003/2008 32bit / 64bit enterprise servers and Dell EMC CX 300 SAN to provide high available centralize database.Management of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 portal server for comprehensive content management, version control, information sharing and enterprise search. Managing more than 20 portals integrated with Microsoft Active Directory.

Lahore, Pk

My key responsibilities were to implement, manage and support IT infrastructure services including but not limited to Active Directory Domain, DNS, Messaging, IBM Lotus Domino Cluster, Microsoft SQL Cluster, ISA/Squid Servers and several mission critical services at MCB Bank Ltd.Key Responsibilities:Team Lead of Infrastructure Optimization Project, Migration from Microsoft to Open Standards solution (RHEL), including Exchange/Outlook migration to IBM Lotus Domino/Notes, MS Office Migration to Symphony etc. Management and administration of co-existence between MS Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino. Migration of ISA 2004/06 to Squid Proxy of RHEL.Management and administration of Microsoft Exchange 2003 Cluster environment, including 6 Exchange Servers, designed to achieve high availability and continuous operations by 24X7 bases. The messaging environment comprises of two 2-node back-end clusters and two front-end NLB cluster servers with over 3.5 Million messages per week traffic.Management and administration of squid proxy servers deployed in High Availability, ISA Servers 2006 as reverse proxy for OWA, RPC over http and site publishing.Management and administration of Microsoft SharePoint team services for comprehensive content management, version control and information sharing. Black Berry server (BES 5.0.2) management, up-gradation of enterprise software from 4.1 to 5.0 and migration of users from old version to newer one, license management and level 2 support.Managing team of 5 person, working in 2 regions (central & south), giving 2nd and 3rd level support to different teams and users

Lahore, Punjab, Pk

My key responsibilities were to implement and support IT infrastructure services focused to Microsoft technologies for Warid Telecom, covering Multiple domains, Microsoft Exchange Clusters, Microsoft SQL Cluster, Office Communication server, DNS, ISA Servers and several critical services. Responsible for providing and supporting these services to over 3000 users, including 6 main offices, 2 Call Centers and over 28 branch offices.Key Responsibilities:Management and administration of Windows 2003 Active Directory comprising single forest, multiple child domain models with of more than 10 domain controllers.Responsible for the management and administration of Microsoft Exchange 2003 Cluster environment, including eight Exchange Servers, designed to achieve high availability and continuous operations by 24X7 bases. The messaging environment comprises of two 2-node back-end clusters and two front-end NLB cluster servers with over 5 Million messages per week traffic.Implementation and administration of Microsoft Office Communicator Server (OCS) to provide private instant messaging for real time communicationsImplementation and administration of Microsoft PKI (Certificate Authority) to provide secure infrastructure to business application (TABS)Implementation, management and administration of Windows Rights Management Services, deployed as two node NLB cluster servers to protected and secure confidential e-mails and office documents.Management and administration of three Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Servers (ISA) 2004 implemented as front end proxy and reverse proxy for OWA, RPC over http, software firewall, cashing, secure internet communication and site publishing.

Implemented and administered the IT Infrastructure of Bank's network across the country focusing MS Exchange 2003, MS AD, Storage and Intranet in back office and 80+ branches of the bank.Key Responsibilities:Installation, management and administration MS Exchange 2003, 2003 Server Directory Services, ISA 2004, SAN, WSUS, Trend Micro Office Scan Antivirus and FTP Server.Installation, configuration and management of HP MSA 1000 (SAN), deployed in two regions Karachi and Lahore for high availability of business application and databasePlanning and Implementation of Backups and Disaster Recovery procedures using Symantec VERITAS 10d.Configuration and maintenance the Cisco Routers 1700, 1800, 2600 series and L3 Switches 3700 series.Configuration and maintenance of Panda Gateway Defender 8100 hardware firewallTrend Micro Antivirus 7.x implementation, configuration & administration. Project rollout team lead for overall 80+ branches in Pakistan along with main offices.Troubleshooting and resolution of all infrastructure services including Level 1 & 2 SupportMigration of services from Prime Infrastructure to ABN Amro Bank LimitedMS Antigen Anti-Spam and Security for Exchange deployment and administrationMonitoring of all infrastructure services, network devices and links through Solarwinds monitoring application

Masters Of Computer Science, Communication And Networking

Bachelor'S Degree, Humanities