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London Victoria | Network Engineer - (Contract)Design and deploy virtual data centre data in ASW and migrated services from legacy data centre to AWSDesign and deploy various Secret networks between Home Office and various other Government departments such as Cabinet Office and Police forcesDesign and deployment of Solarwinds & Netflow to increase monitoring capabilities within a networkCisco ISE monitoring & troubleshooting. Provide 3 rd line support to various teams

AugustFarnborough U.K | Network Engineer - (Contract)Support & maintain Cloud Service Provider network that provides assured cloud-computing services to Govt. andPublic Sector via the G-Cloud platformKey responsibilities included: implementing bespoke connectivity to Govt. customer such as MoD, MoJ, N3HMRC, HomeOffice, Police; case escalations; upgrades; routine maintenance; data-centre upgrades; expert input to CAB meetings; cross-skilling with Front/Backline teams; out-of-hours on-callConfiguration and implementation of Cisco Data Centre technologies such as VRF on devices including CiscoNexus 5000,7000 switches, Cisco ASR 1001, Cisco ASR 9006 , ASA 5585/5545 & Arista switches in a multitenant cloud environmentConfigure & monitor network security services such as DDoS mitigation (Arbor APS), SSL Decryption, Data lossPrevention, Vulnerability identification

John Lewis, London Victoria | Network Engineer - (Contract)Upgrade John Lewis multiple data centres end of life/support Cisco based hardware including routers, switchesfirewalls.Respond to 3rd Line Support Calls in the internal infrastructure environmentManage trouble ticket queue prioritizing calls according to business impact

British Telecommunication, U.K | Senior Network Security Design Engineer / TDAProvide ICT advice and/or professional services to both internal and external clients. Provide support on projects, carrying out elements of the research, analysis and/or deliveryEnd to end delivery, with a focus on solution / architecture design (working directly with the client); including POC testing and migration plans - each project affecting a minimum of 50 sitesProvision of expert level technical support for BT internal projects, and external clients; defining and delivering to bespoke requirementsProduction of comprehensive network solutions and designs in line with the needs of high security public/ private sector organisations

Projects / Key Achievements: Home Office, Croydon U.KLead network designer on a project to migrate the Datacentre legacy network management & monitoring system(Microsoft SCOM) to new robust IPSoft solution (IPCenter) for monitoring & end to end automation of network devices switches, routers, firewalls , load balancers & serversDesigned, build and deployed Datacentre network infrastructure using Cisco 6500, 3750, 2960 switchesASA 5510/5580, FWSM, CheckPoint, Fortinet firewall (Fortigate 310B)Create firewall polices (Cisco)400D,VODM's) to allow management connectivity from the IPCenter to the various network environmentsProductionStaging, Testing (multiple VRF's), configured network devices for SSH, SNMP, ICMP, HTTPSSyslog.Cisco ISE design, deployment and troubleshooting for 20,000 users. AD integration, configuration of devices access, profiling network access, guest & web authentication and 802.1X implementation for wire and wireless networksDevelopment and maintenance of High-Level and Low-Level Design diagrams/documentation

Metropolitan Police , U.KResponsible for verifying technical requirements and creating detailed technical design, implementing and supporting MPS network mainly Cisco & Checkpoint firewall estate. Design and deliver various BAU projects insecure IL3/IL4ASA/CheckPoint/Fortigate) issues on a daily basis. Prepare and implement various change requests ranging new site deployment, new application testing connectivity & firewall polices amendments based on new designenvironment. Upgrading end of life firewalls and supporting multivendor firewalls (Cisco)

Replaced end of support firewalls, installed and configured new Cisco ASA 55xx firewalls at multiple customer sites and datacentre locationsReview all of the client's existing firewall rules, provide recommendations on consolidation changes, document the process and drive the changesDeveloped detailed designs with supporting implementation, test and transition plans

Surrey Police, U.KUpgraded Surrey's Police existing legacy WAN (100 plus sites) to the centralized BT MPLS based network by utilizing BT Ethernet-Connect technology (layer 2 VPN/ VPLS) connecting various remote sites, police stations and Data CentresInstalled and configured dual Cisco ASR 1001 routers supporting/terminating Ethernet Connect WAN Access circuits and LAN connectivity. Installed and configured Datacentres DMVPN Hub routers (Cisco ASR's 1002-X) and spoke routers (Cisco ISR G2 series 887-VA 2951, 3925/3945 at remote sites) to build a dynamic IPSec tunnels to encrypt customer traffic that flows from remote sites to DC. This allows Surrey Police to be PSNReady' as new network is capable of PSN Encrypted Overlay IL3 ServiceDesigned and deployed 802.1X based port authentication for wired and wireless clients utilizing Cisco ISE as an authentication and authorization server to control access to network resources

Thames Valley Police, U.KDeployed VPLS based VPN (BT Ethernet Connect technology) solution across the entire Police estatecustomer sites utilizing BT 21st Century Network (21CN) products such as fibre, SuperfastConnectedBroadband, Ethernet First Mile/Ethernet Access Direct (EFM/EAD) & L2VPN/L3VPN circuitsProvide private ADSL connections for Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)/ camera sites on MPLS platform (IP Connect). The ADSL traffic is placed into a Customer MPLS VPN and backhauled into the Customer data centresDeployed IL3 WAN via Dynamic Multi-Point VPN (DMVPN) to create a mesh of encrypted IPSec tunnels acrossPolice estate to enable Datacentre and remote communication over encrypted tunnels (PSN compliance)

Hampshire, U.KTransformed customer existing GET VPN based WAN solution into the DMVPN PSN Encryption Overlay IL3Service to follow the PSN encryption standardsMigrate existing Hampshire Police network infrastructure (100 + sites) to new high speed BT Ethernet-Connect(VPLS) service and migrated customer LAN switches management to the BT SRMP platform for secure managementConfigure DMVPN hub (Cisco ASR 1002-X) routers and Spokes routers (Cisco 2900 & 3900 series) at all sites to build dynamic IPSEC tunnels in line with PSN compliance secure IL3 connectivityRestructure existing Core LAN infrastructure and replace/upgrade 3550/2950 switches with 3750 stack switches