Niamathulah Hameed

• Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance and implementation of information security standards, procedures and guidelines.
• Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
• Developed, implemented and documented security programs and policies and monitored compliance across departments.
• Planned and oversaw configuration changes for security infrastructure platforms.
• Assessed security compliance, security program organization, policies and procedures, general risks and vulnerabilities.

List of Palo Alto Products working on:

• Cortex XDR
• Next Gent Firewall
• Panorama

Worked on Following Platforms:

• All Windows client OS and Windows server 2008 to 2019
• Linux Operating Systems: RHEL Ubuntu, Centos
• IOS

Key Deliverables:

• Manage Business and Enterprise clients to deliver solutions. Management planning on complex issue related Endpoint Security products through ePO.
• Manage various up to date Product Packages/ Updated Virus Definition packages across Repositories in ePO and how Product Packages/ Updated Virus Definition packages are distributed across environment.
• Create policies that govern various protocols specific client is supposed to inherit through McAfee Agent and other point products across environment
• Perform tasks such as Installation/ upgrade/ Patching for management of Agent Handlers/ ePO/ McAfee Agent/ Endpoint Products that distribute policies and packages to MA clients.
• Test new product versions and their patches to ensure early identifiable bugs and issues that can be addressed.
• Deliver Knowledge sharing sessions on emerging issues and actively support team as buddy mentor to help get over when team members hits plateau.

List of McAfee Products worked on:

• McAfee ePO - On-Prem
• McAfee Agent- Windows/ Linux/ Cloud
• Move [Management of Optimized virtualized Environment]
• McAfee ENS
• Mcafee EDR
• VSE & HIPS
• MVision ePO
• MVision Mobile
• Rouge System Detection

Worked on Following Platforms:

• All Windows client OS and Windows server 2008 to 2019
• Linux Operating Systems: RHEL Ubuntu, Centos

• Managed and protected VM environment that scale between 100-30,000 VM's to maintain uptime depending upon type of protection configured such as high availability and fault tolerance.
• Configured Raids on servers before deployment of technologies from proprietary Server console
• Managed Initial and Custom storage groups from product console.
• Managed VM disks for size and redundancy
• Performed upgrades on software
• Installed software on Bare-Metal servers
• Performed node replacement due to hardware issues
• Configured network as per requirement
• Checked basic errors on GUI and have had addressed errors accordingly
• Performed log analysis on windows and Linux clients.

• Managed vSphere 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 environments deployed on both Windows and appliance boxes
• Managed Datacenters, Host, and clusters
• Dealt with EVC configurations and requirements for migration between hosts and data-stores
• Configured and worked on Enhanced Link mode set up and Platform services controller replications
• Managed Databases that hosts vSphere environment
• Embedded Postgres/Microsoft SQL]
• Managed VM snapshots and consolidation
• Managed appliance file partitions in terms of data space management, performing recoveries.
• Managed roles and permissions for different users according to their requirements
• Synchronizing vSphere environment with LDAP to provide AD users adequate access through command line as well as GUI.
• Installed ESXi and performing actions such as applying updates and installing upgrade profiles through command line as well as through Update Manager
• Managed VM files and VM existing with ESXi through command line and GUI
• Worked on Host Lock Conflicts.
• Created VMX files and attaching them to VMDK in conditions of VMX corruption
• Cloned VMs and created Templates for backup and restore and various other reasons as needed by clients.
• Worked with Services to fix ones that are broken through command line as well as through GUI.
• Read logs to figure out cause for break and applied appropriate fixes.
• Dealt with issue such as forgotten root and administrative passwords to reset then over command line as well as GUI
• Looked into basic port configuration in relevance with services and working on port conflicts.
• Worked on ESXTOP to check storage read write averages, Memory NUMA, and Kernel input/output average in relevance with kernel response and addressed performance issues.
• Set up DNS, subnet mask, gateway IP, Static and Dynamic IP's with FQDN on vSphere components such as VM, ESXi and vCenter server appliance or Windows box.

• Took care of problems and issues related to Backup Exec Products from version 2010 to 16 Fp2.
• Worked on Physical and Virtual environments to solve issue regarding backup and restore.
• Configured and Supported Physical to Virtual and backup to Virtual conversion.
• Configured and Supported Disaster Recovery of servers using Simplified Disaster Recovery and Intelligent Disaster Recovery
• Configured and Supported File level restore using VMDK and VHD file, DB and Tablespace level restore and backing up in Oracle, Linux backup and restore, basic Network configurations on Linux, Virtual Machine restore
• Configured Tape Storage, Disk Storage, NAS Storage, LUN, Deduplication and Virtual Tape Library in Backup Exec
• Implemented techniques such as client-side deduplication and server-end deduplication
• Configured and maintained Robotic Tape Library and Virtual Tape Library
• Assisted in Media Management and Backup Strategies
• Handled issues with Central Admin Server and Managed Media Server.

GPA: 60%

Project done:

A Passive Radio - Frequency PH – Sensing TAG for wireless food Quality Monitoring.

GPA: 72

GPA: 79%