Junaid Habibullah
Network & Security specialist
Srinagar
Summary
Innovative Network Engineer provides reliable and vital connectivity for multi-site installations. Integrates fixed wireless infrastructure at enterprise scale. Trusted to develop fast and secure infrastructure plans for facilities and networking hubs.
Professional with a strong background in network engineering, bringing practical experience and the ability to deliver impactful solutions. Skilled in configuring, managing, and optimizing network systems with a focus on security and efficiency. Known for fostering team collaboration and adaptability to meet changing demands. Reliable and results-driven with a keen understanding of network protocols, troubleshooting, and infrastructure design.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Network Engineer
Digital Ocean
10.2023 - Current
- Testing new vendor adaption with current deployment with proof of concept and test results
- Installed new network devices, firewalls and servers in multiple DC locations and their automation through ZTP
- Designed new dashboards for visibility and observability in our network through Prometheus and grafana tools.
- Extensive traffic engineering within DC for stopping link choke and latency.
- Installed LOA cross-connects and patch panels in equinix, Coresite, Megaport and digital reality.
- Designed and implemented a new VPC design for our org by using Arista switches and automation.
- Updating netbox to maintain the record of the network and its configuration
- Extensive experience in using GIT for version control and PR update to our network design repositories
- Experience in docker , stackstorm and ansible playbooks
- Automation of configuration by using salt .
- Design and maintain overlay and underlay VRF for VPC customers
- Experience in deployment of tunneling configuration within multiple POPS.
- Extensive experience in DDOS technology and multiple DDOS vendor tools like Arbor, Radware, Corero and Wanguard
- Experience with high line juniper , Arista , Cisco and Nokia chassis
- Experience in maintaining DO cloud and droplets and their 99.99% availability and troubleshooting
- Experience in next-gen firewalls like Paloalto,Fortinet and cisco firepower and juniper SRX for gateway management
- Provide RFC for new design to the team and PIR for incidents
- Experience in service provider network like PNI,transit and direct-peering
- Experience in DC type of environment by maintaining the capacity from TOR to the application servers and their monitoring
- Experience in device hardening and network security by applying the configuration of audit and updating the templates
- Configuration of application load balancers for user droplets and DDoS protection
- Maintain large F5 VPN deployments for mobile and desktop users throughout the org
- In-depth experience in managing f5 LTM in multiple location
- Certificate creating and updation for VPC Arista switches on a monthly basis
- Testing basic network AI deployment to understand it application and use in the network
- Maintain the spare devices and their record in automated format in shipyard tools
- Updating Bring your own IP records of the customer through API in the wanguard console
- Traffic engineering in the backbone network based on the utilization of traffic through the peering manager
- Update packet brokers like Gigamon and Riverbed in the front-facing network
- Experience in racking and physical cabling of the newly installed devices and the record updation by automation in netbox
- Working experience in DevOps tooling and terminology like docker, kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
- Managed vendor relationships to negotiate contracts, procure equipment, and receive timely technical support when needed.
- Improved network performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks, optimising configurations, and implementing best practices.
- Contributed to disaster recovery planning efforts by designing resilient networks to withstand unexpected events.
- Optimized routing protocols to improve data transfer speeds across the organization''s network infrastructure.
- Experience in jira and service for maintaing the work records and tickets
- Working on ubuntu servers for maintaining exabgp ,Influx-db and wanservices on ddos servers
- Integrating of network alerts in pager-duty , slack and email for on-call engineers
- Installing DWDM for optical fiber termination and trouble shooting like ciena devices.
- Worked on integrating aws ,google cloud and azure with Do cloud by integrating it with cloudways and with help customers choose the best cloud based on availability and cost.
- Worked on AWS cloud for training models for a local deployment
- Has experience in maintaining cloud network in aws and its CSR routers
- Created DO customer redudent cloud instances like EC2 in amazon for geo-location based redudency
- Worked on kentik,akips for visibility of the in and out of network
- Worked on deployment of crpd and route-reflectors in our network for TE
Security Engineer 3
Comcast India Engineering Center
05.2019 - 10.2023
- Extensive experience in managing enterprise networks and its tooling and customer support
- Experience in ARUBA wireless products like AP, ARUBA-CENTRAL, Controllers and ARUBA CLEARPASS in Comcast stores
- Extensively deployed F5 VPN and LTM devices in multiple locations across the company presence, upgrade and troubleshooting
- Maintained Fortinet-based VPN tunneling like DMVPN and IPSEC across the DCs
- Worked on automating daily tasks like device health checks and basic troubleshooting to save the resources
- Worked on cyber ark to maintain the password for the org
- Provide DDoS Mitigation services to over 300+ Commercial customers all over the United States and other parts of the Globe
- Worked on NETSCOUT Arbor Sightline appliance to manage various configurations for mitigating over 23 types of DDoS attacks
- Worked on 4 D's mechanism, where we Detect, Divert, Drop & Rate Limit & Deliver the traffic to customers
- Deliver powerful visibility and traffic intelligence, at the internet scale, to help customers to understand their environment, and detect threat actors, their tools, behaviors using NETSCOUT Arbor Appliance.
- Has worked independently in identifying the risk and customer impacting issues and had provided resolutions and in somecase workaround to maintaing downtime
- Has worked extensively in firewall and ipsec deployment with next gen security like brightcloud and atlas
- Also worked on increasing the capacity of mgmt traffic and increase capacity of firewalls by replacing it with newer-models by comparing the requirement and t-shit size
- Experience in BGP,OSPF and IS-IS protocols and configuration
- Experience in flowspec and netflow usuage in preventing ddos for the network
- Worked on splunk instances for log analysis and retention
Network Engineer
CSS Corp
02.2018 - 05.2019
- Monitoring the Network Events using Solar Winds Monitoring Tools
- Troubleshoot Network Issues within the Defined SLA, Working based on ITIL Process
- Troubleshooting LAN & WAN Reachability issues
- Configuration & Troubleshooting the Critical Issues on the High End Switches like Nexus 5K, 6K, 7K & Catalyst 6500 Series High End Switches
- Performing Scheduled Code Upgradations on ASR Router, Nexus & Catalyst 6500, 3750, 3850 Switches and Chassis Replacements
- Creating & Managing the SOP for the Network Issues & Activities
- Worked in SOC Team (Security Operations Center) handling various security events and alerts related to Cyber Security
- Hands-On experience using Splunk working on use cases and managing dashboards
- SIEM Knowledge
- Monitor and analyze security and report suspicious/malicious activity to a higher level or team members
- Conduct proactive research on rising trends and alarming cyber threats, and come up with innovative measures and strategies to improve security
- Monitoring and take necessary action on the phishing emails over the enterprise network.
- Worked on aws cloud for spinning the instances and creating tunnels for customers
Education
Master of Science - Data Science And Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani
Pilani, India 06.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
CIITM
Jaipur, India 05.2012 - 06.2016
Skills
Certified Ethical Hacker
Checkpoint Admin
AWS Certified Professional
Solar winds
Service Now, JIRA, Remedy
Fortinet Firewall
Aruba
Splunk
Gigamon ( Network Packet Broker)
Bluecoat Proxy
UTM (Fortinet & Palo Alto)
F5 VPN
Forti Manager
Arbor
DDoS Mitigation
Favourite activities
Gulmarg and Dal-lake.
Apple plants plantation.
Night Drive
Timeline
Network Engineer
Digital Ocean
10.2023 - Current
Master of Science - Data Science And Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani
06.2022 - Current
Security Engineer 3
Comcast India Engineering Center
05.2019 - 10.2023
Network Engineer
CSS Corp
02.2018 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
CIITM
05.2012 - 06.2016
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