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Nissar Ahmad S

Network Engineer - 7 Years of Experience - Near 30093

Occupation:

Network Engineer

Location:

Norcross, GA

Education Level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

YES

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SUMMARY: * 7+ years of experience in Network Engineering, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching, Wireless and Network Security. * Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing, maintaining and testing on routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, DVMRP ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems. * Extensive Knowledge on the implementation of Cisco ASA 5500 series, Checkpoint R75 firewalls, Juniper SSG series Firewalls and Palo Alto Network firewall (5060, 3060), Panorama. * Worked on network security design and installation using Palo Alto Firewall (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering). * Experienced in creating Virtual Servers, Pools Members, Nodes, Profiles and Policies in firewalls. * Proficient in implementing Check Point Firewalls NG, NGX, NG R55, NGX 60, NGX R65, R70, R75, R77 Gaia, Provider-1 and VSX. * Worked on SCCM 2012 implementation to the servers and workstation. * Expert in deploying BIG-IP F5 (LTM, GTM), Cisco ACE 4710 for load balancing and traffic management of business application. * Worked on Tufin Secure Track to optimize firewalls for better performance. * Solid knowledge on implementing NAT/PAT, ACL & VPN Concentrator. * Experience with different Network Management Tools and Sniffing tools like Wireshark (ethereal). * Configuration and Operational Management Experience with PtP / PtMP Radio / 2.4 / 5GHz Mesh Radio Systems (Tropos/Redline /Cambium /Cisco). * Extensive knowledge on kill chain management. * Expert on NXOS, IOS, and Jun-OS system test. * Extensively worked on Algosec for firewall rule analysis and firewall rules cleanup. * Proactively monitored network health for customers and corp. network via tools such as Solarwinds. * Extensive knowledge on kill chain management. * Administering and evaluating firewall access control requests to ensure that these requests are compliance with client security standards and policies. * Strong knowledge in TACACS+, RADIUS and their implementation in Access Control Network. * In-depth expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture. * Experience in Network Monitoring System (NMS) such as Nagios, Syslog Server, alienvault. * Extensive understanding of the Application Security Module (ASM) technology. * In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, VLSM, Summarization and ARP. * Strong hands on experience in installing, troubleshooting, configuring of Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 3400, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1900, 1941, 1921 and 1800 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6800, 6807, 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950, 2960 and 3500XL series switches, Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K & 2K Switches. * Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Gateway Redundancy and its troubleshooting. * Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, PVST, STP, RSTP, RPVSTP and MVST. * Experience in working with Windows PowerShell Scripting to maintain and administrating server environments and understanding of Linux. Experienced with active directory design installation and migration. * Expert in wireless/RF communications with knowledge and experience in technology integration of Wireless Broadband/Convergence (IEEE 802.11, WiMAX, BYOD, etc.). * In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Subnetting, VLSM, DNS, DHCP, ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts. * Well experienced in configuration, troubleshoot and checking connectivity issues with Aruba access points.

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