Principal Engineer/Systems Architect
Oracle
Total years of experience :27 years, 2 Months
• Lead Cloud Platform Qualification team for 5G NFs (microservices) deployment in Public and Private clouds.
• Capacity planning for cloud resources
• Running OCI Vulnerability Scanning Service on OCIR (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry) images and hosts
• Provide lead role in 5G Network User Plane Functions Deployment and Architecture. This includes architecture reviews, performing benchmark testing using DPDK and SRIOV I/O acceleration techniques in OpenStack and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Collaborate across the Solution Architecture team to create a proposal for a 5G date plane Cloud Native deployment.
• Evaluated applicability of OCI-OKE over CFS for improved profitability
• Automated deployment, validation of 5G NFs along with ATS execution in OCI Kubernetes through Jenkins pipeline.
• Produced architectural assessment and overview of ATS (Automated Test Suite) Framework with prioritized recommendations for improvements.
• Collaborated with ECP product managers and CGBU Technical Strategy Business Development team to define ECP Strategy and business requirements with an emphasis on Application enablement.
• Help Deployment and Automation effort of SDWAN Enterprise Solutions in Clouds (Open stack, AWS, Azure, OCI) and delivery of validated product to customers.
• Support architecture with wide variety of tools, applications, databases and infrastructure platforms.
• Support Global Teams (internal and contractors) and manage their progress.
• Validate end to end secure connectivity, implement corporate security policies and endorse corporate best practices.
• Provide training, Board Session and knowledge transfer to Systems Engineers, Customers, PLM and QA/Engineering teams.
• Create Confluence pages on Oracle Cloud supported Load Balancers, VPN GW and Service GW, comparison on various solution deployment modal.
• Deploy MS WAN testbed in Azure public Cloud for SDWAN secure connectively (through VPN and Firewalls).
Provide lead consulting role in design and deployment of Cisco virtual products in private and public cloud environment including OpenStack, Azure, AWS, GCP and Hypervisors (ESXI, KVM, XEN, Hyper-V, Cisco NFVIS).
• Developed secure cloud connectivity designs and presented to partners and customers.
• Deployed Cisco network solutions in public clouds Azure, AWS and GCP
• Implemented POC and validated cloud customer use cases
• Developed Hybrid Cloud automation strategy.
• Conducted performance characterization using SRIOV/DPDK/Pass-through/Virtio.
• Measured and analyzed memory and performance characterization of VNF
• Conducted Hybrid Cloud workload migration, IP mobility using LISP Overlay on clouds.
• Validated SDWAN Cloud Edge Device stability and throughput.
• Provided competitive performance analysis among various virtual products.
• Managed projects including the resolution of issues during project life cycle.
• Collaborated with customers, vendors and internal teams to deploy and validate custom solutions and provided consultation for improvement.
• Provided specialized training, knowledge transfer, technical consultation, and support for a variety of products and solutions.
• Deployed Transit-VPC and Auto-scaler Solutions on AWS and Azure public Cloud for enterprise customers.
• Finalized technical specifications, network planning/design, setup test environment and specifications.
• Migrated (Itron) IOT Billing solution to azure Public Cloud through Cisco VPN
Manage Operation Support Services of Broadband and IPTV on copper and fiber Infrastructure. Responsibilities included but not limited to hiring new talents, CAPEX and OPEX estimates and budgeting, Removing internal and external barriers to business growth, collaboration with other business units, Driving the multi-year view of the business plan and evaluating new business opportunities and service offerings. Assist senior management in making critical business and operational decisions by providing the appropriate level of intelligence, analysis, assessment and recommendations.
Responsibilities include design and implementation of enterprise solutions, based on marketing requirement and Cisco Advanced Voice and Video (AVVID) Infrastructure including Security, network management, quality of service (QOS), high availability, reliability and performance. Lead development test various projects, developed for US Retail Market. This includes, budgeting, scheduling, project management, provide lead to project team on the build of a major SW release, coordinating with marketing and sales team, providing training to new hires, shaping requirements into directions, Stress and performance benchmarking, web site maintenance, automation and system integration.
Finalized technical specifications, network planning/design, setup test environment, specifications, automated regression test scripts and test reports. Performed the first ever voice quality testing on the AS5400/5350 Platform in a mixed voice, dial and fax SS7 solution environment. Installed and Configure Cisco Billing and Management Server (BAMS), AAA Radius Server, RPMS Server and MindCti Billing Server. Performed SS7 conformance testing (MTP level 2, 3 and ISUP) with ITU variants. Completed IOS Stability Testing for ISDN (Helped in reduction of ISDN Bugs to 50%). Integration and testing of end-to-end voice and packet switching solution providing ISDN/VoIP/AAL5 over the backbone ATM PVC network using Telcordia Service/Call Manager.
Provided TOI to field staff in cable modem provisioning and MGX8850. Worked on Solution Testing of Thunder Voice (SS7 interconnect for Voice Gateways Solution) and Thunder Dial (SS7 interconnect for Access Server) and interconnect of TDM and VOIP through Cisco Media Gateways (MGX 8850, XM5400).
Designed and established operator-less complaint registration and fault rectification system using CTI for faulty telephone lines. This includes automatic testing of EWSD, ERICSON AXE-10 exchanges linked together through TCP/IP network.
· Responsible for maintaining enterprise wide network (Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft Exchange, CISCO Routers) of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited.
· Responsible for ISDN system Configuration and testing for Video Conferencing.
· Installed Voice Messaging Billing Information System using IVR technology.
· Designed and implemented PTCL Hotline for telephone fault registration and rectification using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (as back end) and Visual Basic (as front end). This includes networks of 25 operators connected on 100 base LAN and 16 remote systems connected through dial ups and dedicated cross connect links using CISCO Access Server.
· Responsibilities included system administration on Solaris2.x UNIX systems and network administration.
· Performed kernel configuration, backups, process & load monitoring, and tracked memory allocation.
· Performed Mail, FTP, device (modems, printers, PCs) administration, system performance and tuning, optimizing NFS etc.
· Responsible for testing of Defect Tracking systems, and GUI for test environment Toolkit.
Wrote test cases in C/C++ and Shell scripts (Korn shell and tcl).
Wrote queries for various record formats using SQL and tested the Database Management System.
BCRA (Basic Cisco Remote Access) part of CCNP Certification
BCRA (Basic Cisco Remote Access) part of CCNP Certification
Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA)
Electrical and Syetems Engineering concentrating on Network Systems
One year post graduate diploma certificate in computer hardware and software
Electronic Engineer secured 2nd position