Hasheem Hameed
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
A seasoned IT security professional with a career record across multiple technology domains, including IT security, networking and telecom infrastructure. A keen strategist and dynamic go-getter with expertise handling security architecture, consultation, engineering and operations across diverse technologies for both local and global client base.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect - Technical Services Manager
Tech Data APAC
Melbourne, Victoria
04.2022 - Current
- Developed, documented and implemented solution architectures to improve security status of partner's end customers.
- Architected and implemented solutions involved network security, application security, API security, endpoint security, EDR/XDR, cloud security, vulnerability management, secrets/key management, Attack surface management, Identity and Access Management, SSO, Data Security, SIEM etc, involving vendors - F5, Tanium, IBM QRadar suite, Thales, Microsoft, AWS, SecurityScorecard , Redhat etc.
- Developed use cases for solutions that are in demand, performed proof of concept (POC) and demonstrations in TechData's Centre of Excellence (CoE).
- Performed security and risk assessments for end customers, against established security frameworks like NIST, CIS, Essential 8, ISO 27001 etc.
- Performed pre-sales discussions with partners, reviewed and evaluated proposed solutions, finalized BoM and also defined scope of work for professional services, followed by quoting and implementation.
- Conducted trainings, webinars and enablement sessions for partners on latest vendor products and technologies from our Security portfolio.
- Provided professional services to end customers on vendor project at varying levels as per requirement - consultative as well as hands on. Involved identifying gaps in current design and deployments, advised and implemented industry best practices.
Technical Specialist - Security
KineticIT ( client: Victoria Police )
Melbourne, Australia
04.2021 - 04.2022
- Lead the enterprise security team for all security related projects and operational requirements, covering aspects of security engineering, operations and cyber-security
- Escalation point for SOC for incident investigation and resolution.
- Performed vulnerability assessment and developed process for resolution with support team for regular patching.
- Worked on the technologies - Checkpoint, Cisco - Firepower (FTD), WSA, ESA, Umbrella, Threat Grid, Threat Response, AMP for endpoints, ISE, MS Azure MFA, Tenable etc.
- Documented designs, work instructions, CMDB update and P2BAU handover documents.
- Reviewed existing process and procedures, recommended improvements and upskilled/trained security operations team for the ongoing support of newly deployed security infrastructure.
Senior Consultant - Cloud Security Operations
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Melbourne, Australia
- 04.2019
- Responsible for maintaining security compliance in Cloud for the bank
- Ensuring adherence of the various cloud services to the defined security controls for the bank.
Senior Consultant - Security Networks
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Melbourne, Australia
04.2019
- Leading the security infrastructureCnetwork team in an engineering capacity for projects and day to day operations
- Assignments included - Public cloud connect uplift, defining security controls and standard operating environment (SWE) based on group information risk policy and other industry standards like YIS, NIST and ISW 2V001, implementing automated compliance check, resolution of vulnerabilities and risk mitigation, network optimization and simplification, capacity management and reporting, asset integration to password vault for auto-rotation, product feature testing and adoption
- Role involved technical consultation, mentoring junior team members, automation, deployment and support of various security technologies including firewalls, proxies, IPS, load balancers and other security assets (mostly F5 products).
Senior Consultant - Security Engineering & Design
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Melbourne, Australia
- Responsible for leading various security projects within engineering and design capacity
- Role involved deployment and uplift of many solutions like DLP ( on-prem and cloud), firewall uplift, test and certification, providing consultation to various project stakeholders and supporting junior team members
- Technologies included Checkpoint and F5 predominantly.
Senior Analyst - Security Engineering
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Melbourne, Australia
- Started at the bank as a senior analyst, handling various security infrastructure project within engineering and design capacity
- Mostly responsible for test and certifications, deployments and handover to BAG.
Senior Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
Bangalore, India
- Previously associated as senior technology analyst with Goldman Sachs
- Involved in resolutions, provisioning and subscription services for the wide range of network - security devices like firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers etc
- Prior to this, lead a team of 20+ resources for voice and telecom services provisioning for the global client base for the bank spread across Americas, EMEA and Asia regions.
ISP Engineer - Operations - Wire line services
Reliance Communications
Calicut, India
- Started career with a world class ISP/Service Provider Reliance Communications
- Worked hands-on, on various transmission and access technologies, multiplexers and networking devices when working with the carrier
- Responsible for network planning, installations, customer services, operations - maintenance of the wire line infrastructure of the ISP.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering -
University of Calicut
05.2001
Skills
- Security Solution architecture, Security Consultant
- Network security, Application security, API security, Endpoint security, EDR/XDR, Cloud security, Vulnerability management, Secrets/key management, Attack surface management, Identity and Access Management, SSO, Data Security, SIEM
- Security and risk assessment, Threat modelling, Cybersecurity and cloud reference architecture, Vulnerability assessment
- Adherence to industry standard security controls and frameworks like CIS, Essential 8, ISM 20, NIST, ISO 27001 etc
- F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IP products - LTM, GTM/DNS, ASM, A-WAF, iSeries and rSeries Appliances, Viprion and Velos chassis
- F5 Distributed Cloud Services - WAAP, Multi-cloud Networking, Bot Protection, DDOS Protection and API security
- IBM Security product suite - QRadar SIEM, SWG, Resilient, Randori Recon Attack Surface Management (ASM)
- Microservices architecture, Containers, Dockers, Kubernetes, Redhat Openshift
- SAML, kerberos, IdP/SP Integration, SSO, Identity Federation
- Vulnerability assessment using Tenable and Tanium-Comply/Patch
- Checkpoint firewalls/security gateways, security manager, VSX, MDS, VPN
- Cloud Infrastructure and Security (Cloud Connect Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, firewalls in cloud)
- Source code and configuration management (GitHub)
- Automation (Ansible, Jinja2 templating)
- Logging, Monitoring/SIEM (Solarwinds, Splunk, Elastic, LogRhythm)
- Change Management (ServiceNow, Remedy, SM9), Incident Management (ServiceNow, Remedy, xmatters, SM9)
- Network Simplification and Optimization
- F5 Modern App products - NGINX Ingress Controller, App Protect, NGINX
- Tanium - Converged endpoint management, Asset Discovery, Risk and Compliance Management, Endpoint Management
- SecurityScorecard security assessments
- Cisco Security Suite (Umbrella, ISE, Stealthwatch, ASA, ESA, Threat Grid, Threat Response, AMP for Endpoints, Firepower/FTD, Anyconnect, SourceFire IPS)
- Conducted Webinars, Technical enablement, Presentation and Training, Technical Consultation
- Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture and Architecture principles
- DLP - Symantec (on-prem) and McAfee DLP solution
- Asset Impact Assessment (processing, memory and load impacts)
- Global remote client support (Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions)
- Capacity Management - Reporting
- People management, Leading teams, Cross-skilling, Training team
- Mentoring and coaching
- Networks, Routing and Switching - Cisco Network Management
- Documentation, Defining Standards (SWE) and Procedures
- Communication and Presentation, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, Highly client focused and result oriented
Certification
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
- F5 Certifications| Certified Solution Expert - Security and Cloud (401 and 402), Certified Technical Specialist - Big IP LTM (301A - 301B), Big IP DNS (302), Big IP ASM (303), Big IP APM (304), Certified Administrator - Big IP (201+101)
- Tanium Certifications | Tanium Certified Specialist - Cloud Deployments (TYS-YD), Tanium Certified Operator (TYW), Tanium Certified Administrator (TYA)
- Microsoft Certifications (Cloud)| Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-303, AZ-304), Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500), Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Cisco Certifications: CCNP Security (Cisco), CCNP Enterprise, CCNP (R&S), CCNA (R&S)
- Cisco Certified Specialist| Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation, Enterprise Core, Network Security JPN Implementation, Security Identity Management Implementation
- Thales Certification | Thales CipherTrust Manager Professional Engineer
- SecurityScorecard Certification | Cyber Risk Intelligence and Incidence Response
Personal Information
- Nationality: Australian Citizen
- Address: 25 Brightly Boulevard, Truganina, VIC 3029, Australia
References
Available upon Request
Timeline
Solution Architect - Technical Services Manager
Tech Data APAC
04.2022 - Current
Technical Specialist - Security
KineticIT ( client: Victoria Police )
04.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Consultant - Security Networks
National Australia Bank (NAB)
04.2019
Senior Consultant - Cloud Security Operations
National Australia Bank (NAB)
- 04.2019
Senior Consultant - Security Engineering & Design
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Senior Analyst - Security Engineering
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Senior Technology Analyst
Goldman Sachs
ISP Engineer - Operations - Wire line services
Reliance Communications
Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering -
University of Calicut
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