Maihan Yaqubee

Experience

1. Senior Network Engineer

   Knz Solutions, Inc

   Jul 2024 — Present · US

   Design network services and deployment procedures, creating and defending High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) documents, working with internal and stakeholders testing the solutions, and providing support in deployment and operation of the solutions- Collaborated a successful migration and upgrade project to enable 100G transmission speeds by switching from Cisco Catalyst C9500-40X to Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2. This involved creating detailed migration plans, diagrams, and configuration scripts through a careful planning and testing through Cisco CML lab, to ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime and potential impacts- Collaborated to successfully migrate the Catalyst Core switches with new Nexus 9K switches as part of network refresh and 100Gb initiatives, involving migration of multiple workload SVIs from old core to the new cores in a phased approach to reduce expected downtimes- Staged and added Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) devices in High Availability (HA) mode to the Firepower Management Center (FMC), along with the configuration migration from ASA to FTD using the Cisco Migration Tool- Staged and migrated Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) from a standalone deployment to a robust SNS-3795-K9 distributed architecture featuring multiple personas across dedicated nodes- Led the migration of Cisco ASA HA to Cisco FTD HA, transitioned complex VPN configurations including site-to-site tunnels and AnyConnect remote access profiles. Integrated Cisco ISE for RADIUS-based authentication and policy enforcement. Utilized Cisco Firewall Migration Tool (FMT).Key Technologies: Cisco ASA, Cisco FTD, FMC, FMT, Cisco ISE, VPN, RADIUS, PKI, HA, AnyConnectProtocols and Services used: Static Routes, OSPF, iBGP, eBGP, STP, SVIs, HSRP, VPC, EVPN/VX-LAN, OTVOS and Tools: Cisco IOS, NX-OS, ASA, FTD, FMC, ISE, Firewall Migration Tool. Virtual lab: Cisco CML, EVE-NGDiagramming tools: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio.

Education

• Kabul University

  BSc, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

• Technische Universität Berlin

  Advanced Linux Administration, Network and System Administration/Administrator

  2009 — 2009

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  Cyber Security Training, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications

  2012 — 2012