Abdul Kareem

Senior Network Engineer @Molina Healthcare

Bothell, WA, US

Designed, coded, tested and deployed Corporate network automation infrastructure service and nodes by using Python and Ansible.• Experience in F5, Cisco ACE 4710 Load balancers. Migration Experience from ACE to F5 and NetScaler’s to F5. Worked on critical applications on Layer 4 and layer 7 load balancing. Experience with Virtual server, Pool, Node, Profiles – TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, fastl4, Persistence – Source IP, SSL, Cookie, SNAT, iRules, iAPP, SSL offloading.• Experience with F5 GTM and in-depth knowledge of DNS, Global level load balancing, Wide IPs Zones, Prober pools, and Delegation from Windows DNS server to listener IP. • Worked on the project to migrate from Cisco IronPort proxies to Zscaler Internet Access, ZIA. Also worked on Zscaler private access to replace SSL VPN for some business units. I worked from scratch in configuring and troubleshooting the following in the migration.• Worked on ZPA Application segments. Worked on Policies for various APP segments based on user groups.• Python or Ansible network automation scripting experience.• Worked on ZCC APP profiles for various endpoints.• Worked on traffic forwarding from on-premises to Zscaler Cloud using GRE tunnels.• Worked on Configuring URL categories and Cloud APP control policies for ZIA. Worked on Authentication IDP and user group-based policies. Worked on SSL Inspection and SSL bypass.• Worked on Proxy PAC file to send traffic to ZIA cloud and bypass rules to go direct.• Worked on ZCC/ZAPP on endpoints. Configured Forwarding and APP profile policies for various endpoints. Worked on ZPA APP connector configuration.• Experience with F5 load balancers LTM and GTM and reverse proxy design and setup. Migration from A10 to F5.• Worked on both Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA).

Osmania University

Bachelor's degree