Mohammad Hachem

Experience

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  Cyberia Lebanon

  Mar 2007 - Mar 2012

  Senior System & Network engineer

  Main duties:• Leading network projects by recommending solutions to network strategies and security issues.• Configuring and administrating network equipment including Cisco routers (7200, 7600, CRS, ASR), layer 2 and 3 Cisco switches (6500, 3750 and 2900 series) as well as Nortel layer 2 and 7 switches, ACS radius and Tacacs, load balancer (Cisco ACE and F5), packet shaper (Packeteer and Exinda) and cache appliances (bluecoat Cacheflow and SG).• Configuring and Maintaining network protocols (BGP, EIGRP and OSPF ).• Installing and maintaining Unix and Windows servers including but not limited to DNS (BIND 9), Mail servers (JES, Intermail), squid, hosting solutions for PHP and ASP (Plesk control panel for windows and Linux), Backup server and Exchange server.• Installing and configuring virtual environments (VMware and Hyper-V) • Securing Cyberia network and servers using Intrusion prevention system (tipping point, McAfee) Anti spam appliances (McAfee SCM 3300, Trend Micro IMSVA, Symantec birghtmail) and firewall (PIX, ASA).• Monitoring Network, Servers and applications with SNMP based software (MRTG, PRTG, Cacti) and SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.• Designing network topologies to support Internet and other data transport channels. Show less

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  GlobalCom Holding s.a.l

  Mar 2012 - now

  • Implement a SIEM (security information and event management ) solution based on the Elastic stack and integrate it with all the company network, security and system assets.• Monitor and manage the SIEM solution to detect any abnormal activity and identify possible intrusions• Review all company data centers topologies and redesign them in a secure manner on the network and system level • Review all installed security devices and solutions (Firewalls, IPS, WAF, EDR, VPN concentrator, antispam) and adjust and fine tune their rules and configuration• Head of the security committee within the company; the committee is responsible of enhancing the company network and systems security and to coordinate between all departments concerning security issues• Responsible of assessing and approving any security policy change requested by any of the technical team• Play a main role in building the company internal SOC team• Work on applying and introducing new security policies and procedures that control the work, and identify the responsibilities and duties of all staff members. • Investigate possible breaches and analyze related logs.• Perform frequent vulnerability scanning and take the appropriate actions accordingly Show less Main duties:• Member of Beirut IX Management and Operations Committee• Deploy and maintain WAN protocols like MPLS, VPLS and VLL.• Work on Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel platform routers and L3 switches.• Implement point to multipoint radio base station as well as point to point microwave links. • Responsible of network management and monitoring servers.: Cacti, Splunk, Nfsen and Zabbix.• Configure and Maintain network protocols over IPv4 and IPv6.• Network security analyst: identify risks and take appropriate actions accordingly. • Implement Cloud and local DDOS mitigation solutions to protect IDM and Cyberia networks.• Work on Next Generation firewall (Juniper SRX 5400) to secure and protect server farm.• Implement IPsec tunnels and configure vpn connections to allow secure communication between different sites.• Install and setup CDNs.• Deploy and configure multi tenant video conference solutions. Show less

  • Systems department manager

    Sept 2019 - now

  • Senior Security Engineer

    May 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Senior Network Engineer

    Mar 2012 - May 2018