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Ummer Ishtiaq

Candidate ID: 2599788

Career Summary

Seasoned Network Security Architect with over 13 years of experience across Clouds, FinTech, MSPs, and ISPs. Demonstrates extensive multi-vendor expertise, including proficiency in Cisco, Fortinet, F5 and Palo Alto technologies.

Skill Set

Network Security

Professional Information

Total Experience : 13

Nationality : Pakistan

Qualification Level : Post Graduate

Job Function : IT - Software

Work Location Preference : Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE

Detailed Profile

Over 13 years of extensive experience in corporate networks, FinTechs and ISPs.
In Summary, my credentials include:

• Experience with Operations and Deployments of large scale networks
• Design and implementation of Optimized Core Network Topology
• Ensuring overall infrastructure security by using SIEM Tools [Cortex XDR, Rapid7, Wazuh, Security Onion]
• In-depth experience with telecommunications and Core/IP Network technologies
• Multi-vendor expertise in Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 WAFs and Cisco Routers, Firewalls, Firepower devices and Switches
• Implementation of CI/CD for network change deployment using GIT and Ansible
• Performing with the team as well as on individual level with the availability of 24/7

Core Competencies:
• Security: Cisco FMC, FTDs & ASA, Palo Alto Network Firewalls and Panorama, IPSec & Remote Access VPNs, NGIPS, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, Cisco ISE, Cisco DUO, TACACS & Radius Authentication, Wazuh, Security Onion, Rapid7, Palo Alto Cortex XDR
• Routing: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Policy Base Routing using Route Maps, TCP/IP, Layer 3 Redundancy (HSRP), IP Spoofing, Virtualization (VRF), IP SLA, Dynamic/Static/Policy NAT/PAT, GRE Tunnels.
• Switching: Nexus VPC, Cisco Stack, Catalyst VSS, VXLAN, Spanning Tree Protocol, EtherChannels (LACP, PAGP), Access-Maps.
• Cloud: Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Security-Groups etc), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (VCN, Subnets, Route Tables, IAM etc).
• Tools:, Netbox, SVN, Cacti, LANState, OTRS, Mozilla Thunderbird, Cisco ISE, VMware Workstation, Virtual Box, GNS3, Packet Tracer, Wireshark, Grafana, Dynatrace, Wazuh.
• DevOps: Terraform, Ansible, Python, BitBucket, Docker, Jenkins, Linux.