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Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Collaborated as a key member of the design and implementation team for one of the nation's leading utility companies. Provided critical support to cross-functional teams by leveraging diverse methodologies, significantly improving project delivery outcomes and ensuring successful execution of complex initiatives.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Direct all facets related to new production services launch operations for seamless execution of routine business operations. Control team on all platforms in close collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. Plan and establish paths that utilize in transmitting data from one node to next; offer routing, switching, and forwarding technologies as well as packet sequencing by delivering robust Layer 3 support to Citrix NetScaler ADCs as required. Administer and provide robust L3 support for entire external Domain Name System (DNS) for a particular set of areas as required. Identify and secure company from phishing outbreaks and other email-borne attack vectors, protecting email accounts from external threats by offering creative mail security solutions. Oversee and ensure timely implementation of multiple reporting solutions, all applicable regulatory compliance, and auditing activities. Lead and performed a wide range of multifaceted assigned accountabilities, including penetration testing, validation, coordination, and re-verification between different teams.▪ Formed and deployed three layered network infrastructures.▪ Played an integral role in migrating and revamping DNS security functions through proper supervision.▪ Led operations related to two-tier segregation of hosting published application/internal API (APP LB)▪ Determined, treated, and reported on key security exposures for prioritizing and eliminating core threats/risks through vulnerability management.▪ Designed, steered, and maintained team SLA in line with organizational set policies.▪ Devised and executed standard communication matric template in terms of major business delivery agility; formed standard template that utilized as an infrastructure as a code for configurational setup on ADCs.▪ Headed and removed audit gaps, conducting an independent survey in co-ordination with cross-functional teams.▪ Finalized Max findings shared from independent Pen tester and Security side.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Oversaw all aspects associated with security engineering to meet desired objectives. Assured operational and development teams to prevent essential vulnerabilities by supervising vulnerability assessment and categorization activities. Developed and enhanced optimum execution of SIEM solutions by gathering and examining log data. Headed and drove several systems monitoring, protection, and enhancement functions across company to enable and streamline technical engineering functions. Ensured all published applications protection via administration of penetration testing liaison.▪ Planned, established, and led a team that challenge zero-day vulnerabilities by inspecting and strengthening all related tasks without impacting business.▪ Covered 100% of assets by acquiring support from multiple teams for continuous improvement of Nexpose vulnerability.▪ Directed and assured maximum data traffic at all times visibility regarding entire protection and monitoring devices.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Controlled a team to support virtualization; appointed as an infrastructure lead for steering a wide range of complex allocated accountabilities, including Datacenter management, storage, backup, Citrix load balancer, application performance supervision, and Mail as a service (MS Exchange). Drafted and negotiated vendor contacts to meet win-win results for all involved parties. Prepared and managed all operations associated with organizational budgeting and purchasing as per requirements. Actively partook in capacity planning for future projects and implementations.▪ Saved company costs by improving datacenter virtualization; met business needs via implementation disaster recovery plan.▪ Mitigated single point of failures in a working environment; orchestrated execution of modern mail as a service

Provided strategic support to team on infrastructure, application, and operating system via proper administration of key incidents. Determined and employed strategic changes as per industrial best practices, trends, and standards. Leveraged advanced monitoring to ensure robust inspection of infrastructure and applications. Completed technical proposal assignment within time-sensitive deadline. Administered implementation team for all new projects from purchasing to datacenter and OS development for application platform.▪ Improved operational efficiency and performance by migrating and deploying all four environments for end-to-end integration of Hajj and Umrah systems (IBM-MQ and BizTalk).▪ Launched kingdom's best applications, including Hafiz, Eskan, Ejar, and many more with zero technical infrastructure downtimes.▪ Leveraged Citric Xen Virtualization by making sure optimum utilization of available resources; designed and created end-user monitoring application performance tool for realizing end-to-end visibility.▪ Configured all operating and application systems to latest stable release; devised and created an effective testing environment in addition to production.▪ Drafted and enforced procedures regarding Standard Operational Process; instigated and drove Citrix load balancer functionality.▪ Optimized servers and application availability resources via JBoss virtualization.▪ Developed and centralized Red Hat satellite server; played a key role in migrating from old legacy rack-mounted hardware to an advanced blade server.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

▪ Setup of core campus with more than 1000 active nodes▪ Setup of 14 labs with dual boot (Linux & Windows) with Domain controlled ▪ Migrations of Microsoft Exchange from 5.5 to Microsoft 2003▪ Training to tech staff to cater for the burgeoning campus needs▪ Introduction of process and procedures▪ Managing RFPs and vendor management▪ Internet monitoring and control using SQUID