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Junaid Habibullah

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
Junaid HabibullahNetwork & Security specialist