Wagdy Abdulhamid

Network Security Engineer

Address Riyadh, KSA, 11129
Phone 00966-560-501830
E-mail wagdy.maher@gmail.com

Network Security Engineer with 10+ year of experience in network and cyber security, information security,
and IT operations. Skilled in implementing network and security infrastructure and balancing security
initiatives to external risks and business operations.

Work History
2018-03 - Sr. Network Security Engineer - SANG Project
Current
KBR Inc., Riyadh, KSA
Lead IT infrastructure team to support infrastructure across nationwide of KSA.
Implementation, Installation and support activities of LAN and WAN Networks.
Managing Cisco ASA, firepower firewalls, Palo alto firewalls and VPNs.
Established and monitoring operational activities of customer data Security network.
Managing Identity access management ISE 2.6 and F5 Load Balancing.
Data collection and standards for various audits and security foot prints.
Developing plan of action and recommendations, identifying milestones and issues to be
addressed and meet agreed SLA.
Protect mission critical servers, applications email gateway with security control best
practice.
Maintain networking infrastructure including OSPF, HSRP, VRF, MPLS, IPSEC.
Handling operation products life cycle including purchase, licensing, renewals, and
budgeting.
Managing Hyper cloud infrastructure and servers migration.
Technical interface communicates for services and support.

2015-04 - Senior Network Engineer - SRCA Project

2018-04 National Cloud, Riyadh, KSA
Collaborated with customers to deliver solutions to meet specific system design, software
application and maintenance requirements.
Working as Senior Network engineer, managing team size of 17 engineers located at DC,
DR and two Naps.
Responsible for providing l2 level support by troubleshooting network issues coming at
Datacenter, NAPS and Branches. Handling routing and switching issues and providing
maximum uptime to customer.
 Executing Network Changes as and when it needed in network with customer approval.
Managing network security and Identity access arrangement solutions firewalls and NAPs.
Preparing Network Diagrams for Branches, Datacenter and DR using for new or network
changes.
Analyzing and submitting various report viz., SLA report, CPU, memory, Bandwidth and MIS
report to Customer.

2011-03 - Network Engineer

2015-03
National Cloud - SAHAB project , Riyadh, KSA
Responsible for managing routers and switches
Responsible for managing and Configuring Cisco Firewall ASA 5505 and ASA 5585.
Responsible for ensuring Maximum uptime for network devices and meeting stringent SLA
timelines.
Planning and configuration of network protocols.
Responsible for allocation of IP schema across Location.
Hardening Cisco network devices according to organization IT security policy.
Drafting Monthly/Weekly Reports of Network uptime and links utilization.
Daily Review of Devices health status and capturing checklist.
Creating CMR/Outage notifications/RCA for all reported issues.

Education
2003-09 - Bachelor of Science: Information Technology And Computing
2008-08
The Open University - London, UK

Skills
Virtualsization- Hyper-V, VMWare

Excellent

IP network Switching,Routing and VPN

Excellent

Fault-tolerant MS failover clustering-based system

Excellent

Identity access management

Excellent

Linux-based servers and products

Good

Antivirus Enterprise solution

Excellent
 Traffic loadbalancing
Excellent

Professional Certifications
2022-01 AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

2021-04 AWS soultion Architect

2017-05 CCNP Security

2017-03 CCNA Cyber ops

2015-02 CCNP Routing & Switching

2013-02 MCSA