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Niall Buckley
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Maynooth, Ireland
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Experienced Professional Services Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in IT Security, IT Operations, Technical Support, Virtualization, Microsoft Products, and Network Administration. Strong information technology professional
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United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Ongoing relation / part-time
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My experience
2020 - ?
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Professional Services Engineer
AzureAD.
• Carried out installation and migration of customer sites to AzureAD and domain services within Azure
• Implementation of high availability next generation firewalls with configuration of security services such as Geo IP filters, Botnet filters, IPS, IDS, Content filtering and Gateway AV.
• Implementation of WDS and creation of base images for over 200 laptops.
• Implementation of network security hardening with installation and configuration of Aruba stack switching with VLAN config and installation of Aruba Access Points using 802.1x standard.
• Implementation of high availability next generation firewalls with configuration of security services such as Geo IP filters, Botnet filters, IPS, IDS, Content filtering and Gateway AV.
• Implementation of WDS and creation of base images for over 200 laptops.
• Implementation of network security hardening with installation and configuration of Aruba stack switching with VLAN config and installation of Aruba Access Points using 802.1x standard.
Azure, Security, Content, Network, Implementation
2015 - 2020
freelance
Senior Security Consultant
unknown.
• Carried out on-site Network Security and Infrastructure audits for financial institutions, state bodies and SME's identifying vulnerabilities or weaknesses in the network and provide consultation on how to resolve these gaps.
• Carried external penetration testing, web application testing and external vulnerability assessments on customers public facing infrastructure and as well as cloud based infrastructure.
• Network Security, implementation of VLAN's to segregate corporate traffic as well as mac filtering and STP implementation in large network environments circa 400 users
• Implementation of Next Generation Firewalls in HA environments including the configuration of the various security services IPS, Anti-Spam filters, Gateway AV, Content Filters, etc.
• Designed the documentation that is completed as part of these audits.
• Produced Gap Analysis reviews on IT security to financial institutions.
• Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery solutions, providing failover documentation and carrying out Disaster Recovery testing on a variety of customers from large SME's with multiple sites to smaller customers with DR environment on cloud storage.
• Created IT Security, Business Continuity, Change Management and Asset Management Policies for various customers.
• Proficient in:
➢ Linux Kali and tools within
➢ Nessus and Open Vas
➢ Alienvault SIEM
➢ Burp Suite
➢ Social Engineering techniques
➢ NMAP
• Carried external penetration testing, web application testing and external vulnerability assessments on customers public facing infrastructure and as well as cloud based infrastructure.
• Network Security, implementation of VLAN's to segregate corporate traffic as well as mac filtering and STP implementation in large network environments circa 400 users
• Implementation of Next Generation Firewalls in HA environments including the configuration of the various security services IPS, Anti-Spam filters, Gateway AV, Content Filters, etc.
• Designed the documentation that is completed as part of these audits.
• Produced Gap Analysis reviews on IT security to financial institutions.
• Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery solutions, providing failover documentation and carrying out Disaster Recovery testing on a variety of customers from large SME's with multiple sites to smaller customers with DR environment on cloud storage.
• Created IT Security, Business Continuity, Change Management and Asset Management Policies for various customers.
• Proficient in:
➢ Linux Kali and tools within
➢ Nessus and Open Vas
➢ Alienvault SIEM
➢ Burp Suite
➢ Social Engineering techniques
➢ NMAP
Network, STP, Social, Linux kali, Web, Storage, Testing, Infrastructure, Penetration testing, Implementation, It, Design, Engineering, Content, Security, Asset Management, Management, Cloud, Mac, Linux, Change management
2015 - 2020
freelance
Technical Consultant/ Professional Services Engineer
unknown.
• Responsible for the training plans and progression of Junior Engineers.
• Design and implementation of Citrix VDI environments using XenApp, XenDesktop and Netscaler on Citrix 6.x and 7.x as well as upgrades across multi site businesses.
• Provided "IT Manager as a service" to larger customers.
• Carried out work as a Technical Consultant on Enterprise level jobs on behalf of Dell such as the Active Directory upgrade of Eircom.
• Installation of VMware standalone hosts and clusters with SAN storage using iSCSI, fiber channel and SAS connectivity in hospitals and large SME's.
• Migration of Hyper-V to VMware on a large state entity in a 24/7 environment (multiple hosts with 60 VM's).
• Migration of on-premise Exchange to Office 365 and hardening with implementation of SPF, DMARC and the various Office 365 security tools such as In-tune and Conditional Access (20 - 100 mailboxes).
• Upgrade and maintenance of Active Directory (Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 with four domain controllers across two sites).
• Provided hardening of critical systems such as servers, firewalls, wireless and switching.
• Design and implementation of Citrix VDI environments using XenApp, XenDesktop and Netscaler on Citrix 6.x and 7.x as well as upgrades across multi site businesses.
• Provided "IT Manager as a service" to larger customers.
• Carried out work as a Technical Consultant on Enterprise level jobs on behalf of Dell such as the Active Directory upgrade of Eircom.
• Installation of VMware standalone hosts and clusters with SAN storage using iSCSI, fiber channel and SAS connectivity in hospitals and large SME's.
• Migration of Hyper-V to VMware on a large state entity in a 24/7 environment (multiple hosts with 60 VM's).
• Migration of on-premise Exchange to Office 365 and hardening with implementation of SPF, DMARC and the various Office 365 security tools such as In-tune and Conditional Access (20 - 100 mailboxes).
• Upgrade and maintenance of Active Directory (Server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 with four domain controllers across two sites).
• Provided hardening of critical systems such as servers, firewalls, wireless and switching.
Hyper-V, Manager, NetScaler, Enterprise, SAN, VDI, Server, Storage, Office, Implementation, It, Design, Wireless, Service, Security, Citrix, SAS, Training, VMware, Exchange, Active Directory, Office 365
2014 - 2015
job
Level 3 & Technical Lead
unknown.
• Assumed Technical Lead role on key customers.
• Responsible for the design and upgrade of customer infrastructure.
• Responsible for the management of other assigned engineers during these upgrades.
• Installation of VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure and migration of physical and virtual machines.
• Installation of Backup solutions such as Veeam Backup and Replication, Backup Exec and StorageCraft as well as cloud solutions such as KeepItSafe and Ahsay OBM.
• Responsible for the design and upgrade of customer infrastructure.
• Responsible for the management of other assigned engineers during these upgrades.
• Installation of VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure and migration of physical and virtual machines.
• Installation of Backup solutions such as Veeam Backup and Replication, Backup Exec and StorageCraft as well as cloud solutions such as KeepItSafe and Ahsay OBM.
Design, VMware, Cloud, Management, Hyper-V, Infrastructure, Backup, Veeam, Tech lead
2012 - 2014
job
Level 2 Support & On-Site Field Engineer
unknown.
• Provided on-site support to our largest customer which included a head office and 15 sub offices across the country with over 300 users.
• Managed the day to day of this customer:
➢ Microsoft Exchange management.
➢ Backup management.
➢ Server and Endpoint patching.
➢ Server and Endpoint protection.
➢ Implementation and support of new applications and systems.
➢ Planning and implementation of infrastructure upgrades to existing sub-offices.
➢ Planning and implementation of infrastructure installs on acquired sites.
• Training of Junior Engineers
• Smaller projects such as installations and upgrades of infrastructure such as firewalls, virtual machines, network switches, etc.
Duties & Position: Level 1 Support (January 2012 - May 2012)
• Ticket generation and escalation.
• Taking calls from customers as first point of support.
• Patching, backups and AV management.
• Worked on issues relating to laptop, pc's, phones and tablets.
• Managed the day to day of this customer:
➢ Microsoft Exchange management.
➢ Backup management.
➢ Server and Endpoint patching.
➢ Server and Endpoint protection.
➢ Implementation and support of new applications and systems.
➢ Planning and implementation of infrastructure upgrades to existing sub-offices.
➢ Planning and implementation of infrastructure installs on acquired sites.
• Training of Junior Engineers
• Smaller projects such as installations and upgrades of infrastructure such as firewalls, virtual machines, network switches, etc.
Duties & Position: Level 1 Support (January 2012 - May 2012)
• Ticket generation and escalation.
• Taking calls from customers as first point of support.
• Patching, backups and AV management.
• Worked on issues relating to laptop, pc's, phones and tablets.
Exchange, Training, Management, Network, Implementation, Support, Infrastructure, Office, Backup, Server, PC
My education
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
BSc, Computing
BSc, Computing
Institute of Technology Blanchardstown
Secondary, Computer Systems
Secondary, Computer Systems
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