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Muhammad Lateef · Senior Network Engineer · Edinburgh

The best networks are invisible.

10+ years of enterprise routing, perimeter security, virtualisation and automation — for governments, broadcasters and fintech.

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CCNP certifiedBGP · OSPF · MPLSVMware VCP Ansible + Arista AVDFirewalls & perimeter security Nutanix NCA10+ years in production

01 / About

The networks I've engineered carry national broadcast traffic for the BBC, Scotland's land register, and a global fintech platform. Ten years of designing, securing and automating infrastructure where downtime isn't an option.

0years+ enterprise networking
0certifications · CCNP CCNA VCP NCA
0wireless APs deployed in one estate
0major roles across public & private sector

02 / Skills

What I run in production.

Routing & Switching

BGPOSPFMPLS / WANCisco IOS / NX-OSArista EOS10G/40G fabrics

Security

Perimeter firewallsPolicy designPalo AltoF5 BIG-IPVPNSegmentation

Virtualisation

VMware vSphereNutanixWireless estatesCloud platform networking

Automation

AnsibleArista AVDPythonInfrastructure as CodeGit / CI

03 / Experience

Ten-plus years, six chapters.

2019 — now

Senior Network Engineer

Registers of Scotland

Network, perimeter security and virtualisation across production environments.

2018 — 19

Senior Network & Security Engineer

FNZ (UK) Ltd

Network provisioning, routing design and firewall policy with the Platform team.

2017 — 18

Senior Network Engineer

Registers of Scotland

SRE and automation across dev/prod. BGP architecture deployment. IaC.

2016 — 17

Network Engineer

Atos · BBC Contract

Designed and implemented Enterprise WAN Core infrastructure.

2012 — 16

Cloud Platform Network Specialist

Registers of Scotland

Complete network redesign enabling production virtualisation.

2011 — 12

Network Engineer

Coventry University

Call Manager, 200 wireless APs, SolarWinds, 1G→10G upgrades.

04 / Case studies

Work that stayed up.

CS-01 · Registers of Scotland

BGP architecture, delivered as code

BGP-based architecture across dev and production, built and managed entirely through Infrastructure as Code with Ansible.

Repeatable, version-controlled production changes

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CS-02 · Atos / BBC

Enterprise WAN core for a national broadcaster

Design and implementation of the BBC's enterprise WAN core under a managed-service contract.

Delivered into a broadcast-critical live environment

02

CS-03 · Registers of Scotland

Datacentre redesign for virtualisation

Complete redesign and delivery of network infrastructure enabling virtualisation of the production estate.

Production migrated onto a virtualised platform

03

CS-04 · Coventry University

Campus network uplift

200-AP wireless estate, Cisco Call Manager, SolarWinds integration and 1G→10G inter-site upgrades — fully documented.

10× inter-site bandwidth, full documentation handover

04

05 / Writing

Notes from the lab.

06 / Contact

Route your traffic here.

lateef@cyberglobe.co.uk
Edinburgh, UK 07776 255537 GitHub ↗ LinkedIn ↗ Twitter ↗