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Munirul Kazal

Canberra,Australia

Summary

Successful Senior Network Engineer accomplished in managing enterprise-wide networks for large-scale operations. Plan, implement and continuously improve infrastructure and controls to stay on top of changing operational and security demands. Expert in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Results-driven Network Engineer with 10 years of expertise deploying and maintaining LAN and WAN infrastructure. Dedicated technology professional with strong track record of accurately conducting system repairs and troubleshooting. Offering exemplary planning, project management and communication talents.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Global Blue
01.2024 - Current
  • Planning, documenting and performing of network changes/extensions, especially in datacentres
  • Orchestration/Automation of firewall rules and underlying network settings
  • Designing and documenting the corporate network architecture (LAN/WAN/WLAN/SECURITY)
  • Data centre network security consultancy for internal departments & projects
  • Operating and monitoring of the corporate network infrastructure- Cisco 5k,7k,9k switches and Firewall and VPN change through Checkpoint, Palo alto and Fortinet Firewall
  • As well as monitor the Dark fibre link between two data centre via DWDM-Packetlight devices
  • Providing 2nd level network infrastructure related support
  • Designing network aspects of disaster recovery and operational security
  • Maintaining, auditing and improving corporate network & security standards
  • Performing network related root cause analysis (RCA) and problem resolution
  • Defining, monitoring and reporting KPIs for network services/Firewall devices
  • Managing proof of concepts, feasibility studies etc
  • Investigating into new technologies & security improvements
  • Writing of white papers and documentations.

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Department of Defence (Leidos- Subcontractor NEC Australia)
03.2022 - 10.2023
  • Collaborating with Senior/Lead Network Engineers to design and implement functional company network and effectively deliver projects and BAU tasks
  • Installing and configuring cutting edge data centre networking hardware such as Nexus Switches, Palo Alto & Cisco ASA Firewalls, and Citrix Netscaler Load balancers
  • Implement engineering best practices to analyse, design, develop, deploy, and support network infrastructure in a large data centre environment
  • Creating and implementing network security measures as per the network security design
  • Produce networking design specifications and detailed schematics for project delivery
  • Manage IP Security data fill, firewall rules administration /troubleshooting with several Firewall products like, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto and Fortinet
  • Provide in-depth analysis of existing network and server configurations and make recommendations for data centre network enhancements
  • Develop and revise network technical documentation
  • Maintain high level technical expertise in all areas of such as Nexus Switches, Palo Alto & Cisco ASA Firewalls, Citrix Netscaler Load balancers, Cisco UCS Manager
  • Produce and organise Firewall change and Network change through SNOW and DSMS change system
  • Organise Network Device certificates through PKI team
  • Provide in-depth analysis of existing network and server configurations through Vcenter
  • Maintain high level technical expertise in all areas of such as Nexus Switches, Fortinet Firewalls, PRTG, ISE, Cisco Prime and Cisco WLC.

Senior Network Engineer

Department of Defence (Fujitsu)
07.2021 - 03.2022
  • Identifying constraints and opportunities for deployed network integration
  • Supporting the assessment of various products for integration into the deployed networks
  • Management of sub-contractor deliverables in-line with approved Scopes of Work
  • Working with the Networks and Gateways product line and multinational partners to identify and design network interfaces
  • A working knowledge of Network Security including key principles for secure design
  • Ability to inform system design of the suitability of various commercially available network monitoring, management and control products for the Defence context.

Network Engineer

Department of Defence (DXC Contractor)
05.2021 - 07.2021
  • Responsibilities: Knowledge of ICT TAF, or at least the CIOG change process including the normal artefacts generated
  • Worked in or on periphery of JP2047
  • I.e
  • Understands the JP2047 web of complexity
  • Coordinate VRRP migration between Telstra Engineer and Comsec Custodian
  • Documentation and Design review for VRRP migration
  • Create and review documentation for pre and post migration.

Network Lead Engineer

Department of Defence (Cubic Australia)
03.2020 - 05.2021
  • Responsibilities: Manages the delivery of ADSTC/JCTB Networks including exercise communications, DTEN device (Router and Switch) configuration, display voice and VTC, firewalls and gateways and multicast routing transport Services
  • Provides assistance to technical teams in the definition and development of network requirements into specifications for major ADSTC events and is responsible for the network aspects of activity and post activity remediation
  • Supervises and manages the network engineers in their administration, configuration, documentation, test and evaluation of ADSTC/JCTB networks, including their interface with Defence C2 systems
  • Administers the network in support of simulation-based events, normally supporting the Technical Control team for events, including: providing helpdesk and on-site support, including VTC, VOIP and data connections and nodes; providing subject matter expert advice at deployed locations; and evidence collection to include providing after-action review artefacts; and supporting post activity remediation
  • Advises exercise planners in understanding network capabilities with respect to training objectives and the network specifications necessary to support those objectives; and Prepares, monitors and executes test and evaluation of the network as part of the ADSTC Technical Planning process
  • Assists ADSTC developmental projects by: advising about network capability and limitations
  • Support the demonstration of ADSTC capability to high-profile visitors; and Supporting the remediation of the DTEN, including the conduct of site surveys to document and verify the physical layer of the DTEN
  • Configure Cisco ASA and FortiGate firewall for supporting Firewall rules, policy, Ports and Protocols as per Defence requirement
  • Diagnosing and troubleshooting various issues such as attenuation, occupancy, noise margin on line, routing issue such as OSPF, BGP, authentication issue, account configuration and lockout issues, VPN and IPSec tunnelling, cabling, bandwidth, duplex issues, Phone issue etc.
  • Maintained up-to-date documentation on network topology and inventory, simplifying troubleshooting processes while promoting better understanding among team members.

Senior Network Engineer

Department of Home affairs (Optus)
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • Responsibilities: The development of a high-performance team of engineers that maintain a position as the design authorities on emerging ICT technologies and Professional Services capabilities
  • Ensuring this position is maintained through building strong relationships at the senior level within the organisation, particularly in the areas of Marketing and Product Development, Networks Ops and Customer Engineering, Optus and Singtel group subsidiaries and other areas where product/service convergence or emergence is driven from
  • Ensure successful delivery and implementation of new products into the design strategy
  • Work with other Technical Operations and Global Operations leaders to build and maintain a cohesive team culture to ensure effective and efficient delivery of high-quality solution designs within each opportunity
  • Client engagement, leadership and relationship management
  • Internal relationship management in a matrix organisation
  • Partner and Supplier management for new capability
  • Design authority ownership for complex bids and managed service solutions in conjunction with Architecture & Professional Services teams providing accurate professional services effort and commercial and cost inputs into Business Cases for new opportunities as well as any BAU incremental opportunities from cross domain technology perspective
  • Leading by example in the daily demonstration of the Optus Values, and fostering and rewarding the same behaviour in team members
  • Troubleshoot the WAN and LAN network issues such as, Router/ Switches down
  • Investigate the issue related to routing table
  • Investigate the issue related to access list
  • Check the logs to find out the cause of issue
  • Check the ports configuration on routers and switches to find out the issue
  • Investigate the issue at edge and PE routers
  • Provide solutions on LAN, WAN, MWAN, and Wireless as well as on WLAN Networking Technologies
  • Maintaining, Diagnosing, Troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches in customer site and Data centre
  • Installation, Configure, Maintain and Troubleshoot Cisco Router, Switches, wireless controller and Riverbed in the customer site and Data centre
  • Configure Vlan for Cisco phone, Avaya phone, Wifi (Cisco and Aruba), Riverbed and Video conference Devices.

Network Support Engineer

Services Australia (Formally DHS- Under Telstra)
01.2013 - 01.2019
  • Responsibilities: Administrating, Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of Orion (Solar Winds) Network Performance Manager
  • Pro-actively monitor and maintain Government network by using Cacti, Netcool, Nagios, Solarwinds- Orion Network Performance Manager, Splunk, Akips, NetDB- Network Database
  • Logging all calls in a custom-made CRM tool such as Remedy ITAM, SIIAM, Infra Enterprise and Cisco ticketing system
  • Assurance support for Government Data Networks utilizing Cisco technologies providing fault management and troubleshooting of onsite Telstra installed routers and switches
  • Troubleshoot the WAN and LAN network issues such as, Router/ Switches down
  • Investigate the issue related to routing table
  • Investigate the issue related to access list
  • Check the logs to find out the cause of issue
  • Check the ports configuration on routers and switches to find out the issue
  • Investigate the issue at edge and PE routers
  • To have an in-depth knowledge of the networking problems and provide solutions on LAN, WAN, MWAN, Wireless as well as on WLAN Networking Technologies
  • Diagnosing and troubleshooting various issues such as attenuation, occupancy, noise margin on line, routing issue such as EIGRP & BGP, authentication issue, account configuration and lockout issues, VPN and IPSec tunnelling, cabling, bandwidth, duplex issues etc
  • To have a sound knowledge of Cisco routers, switches and Nexus switches (5548 and 7000 series) in customer site and Data centre
  • Maintaining, Diagnosing, Troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches in customer site and Data centre
  • Installation Configure, Maintain and Troubleshoot Cisco Router and Switches in customer site and Data centre
  • Configure Vlan for Cisco phone, Avaya phone, Wifi and Video conference Devices
  • Provisioning and configuring remote DHS Local and satellite site
  • Ensuring consistent and professional communication with internal and external clients and stakeholders.

Network Support Engineer

Department Of Treasury
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Responsibilities: Responsible for the provision of support and maintenance of the ACT Government data network to agreed service levels
  • Assist with ensuring all externally provided data services and support resources are maintained to contracted levels
  • Assist with development of new network connections to clients as requested through standard processes
  • Assist with day-to-day maintenance of the network through the provision of quality support and break/fix services
  • Technical skills and knowledge of developing WAN, LAN and wireless Technologies including experience in a multi-vendor data communications network environment
  • Technical experience installing, configuring and maintaining network services.

Education

Post Graduate in computing - Computing

University of Western Sydney
Parramatta, NSW
01.2002

Skills

  • Networking: Routing protocol: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) TCP/IP Protocol suit VLANs, ATM, Frame Relay, SDH, TDM, ISDN/PSTN, LAN and WAN Technologies, VMware ESXI, Venter, NSX-T, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Voice over IP Cisco SDWAN and Cisco ACI, VXLAN Encryption- Taclane-Gem one/Flex
  • Cloud Technology:-Azure Cloud
  • Firewall & Load balancer: - Cisco ASA, FortiGate, Palo-Alto, Checkpoint, F5 Load Balancer, Citrix NetScaler
  • Monitoring Tool:-Cisco Prime, Solarwind, PRTG,Forti manager and Forti analyzer, Panorama, and Cisco ISE
  • Software:- MS Office 2009/2010, MS ACCESS, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Outlook Express
  • Desktop support:- Any Software and Hardware Troubleshooting Installation and configuration of any hardware, software, printer and faxes

RESIDENTIAL AND SECURITY CLEARANCE STATUS

Residential Status : Australian Citizen

Security Clearance : Top Secret Clearance (Negative vetting 2, AGSVA)

Affiliations

CISCO Systems Member of the Cisco Alumni Association

Vendor Certifications

  • Cisco Certificate Network Associates (CCNA-Data Centre)
  • Cisco Certificate Network Professional (Cisco ID CSCO11240203) (CCNP)- Expires on 1st May 2024.
  • Fortinet- NSE4 Network Security Professional (Certificate number-6YGr1cSLuQ)- Expired on August, 2023
  • Juniper Network Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA-Junos)
  • VCP-NV VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization -Registration number-17983410

Hobbies and Interests

Cycling, Swimming and Travel.

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Global Blue
01.2024 - Current

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Department of Defence (Leidos- Subcontractor NEC Australia)
03.2022 - 10.2023

Senior Network Engineer

Department of Defence (Fujitsu)
07.2021 - 03.2022

Network Engineer

Department of Defence (DXC Contractor)
05.2021 - 07.2021

Network Lead Engineer

Department of Defence (Cubic Australia)
03.2020 - 05.2021

Senior Network Engineer

Department of Home affairs (Optus)
01.2019 - 03.2020

Network Support Engineer

Services Australia (Formally DHS- Under Telstra)
01.2013 - 01.2019

Network Support Engineer

Department Of Treasury
01.2012 - 01.2013

Post Graduate in computing - Computing

University of Western Sydney

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