Network Engineer
Ministry of Interior Qatar
Total years of experience :13 years, 0 Months
- Responsible for planning, design, and support of MOI network infrastructure including routing, switching and monitoring
- Provide network design and technical consultancy to MOI customers
- Defining scope for projects from a network architecture and capacity standpoint
- Integrated and transported Active/Active large-scale Data Centers and DR site from infrastructure to virtualization and storage transport standpoint
- Lead engineer for Core Networks including MPBGP, IP/MPLS and IPoDWDM(80-Channel ROADM)
- Oversight and accountability for resolution of outages and service level issues
- Analysis of complex system behavior and performance issues
- Working with other team members and groups to develop network designs, solutions and policy recommendations
- Contribute to other technology projects requiring network engineering expertise
- Participate in vendor evaluation and POC of new technologies and decision support
- Work on multiple projects as a project team member, lead for Core NW
- Submits and execute Change Management Requests
- Technical Documentation (HLDs/LLDs)
Team Lead NOC.
Technical Customer Support - Level 2.
Layer 2/3 Core Networks.
Designing and Solution Development.
Technical documentation.
Maintenance of Core Linux Servers.
Smooth Operations of Nationwide Internet POPs (Point of Presence).
Configuration, Management & Troubleshooting of Nationwide MPLS POPs (Point of Presence).
Meetings and Presentations.
Operation and maintenance of Data Center.
Key Achievements:
Installation of Multiple Internet POPs.
Designing and deployment of Internet POP at Peshawar, Multan and Faisalabad.
BGP Peering with upstream provider (Tier-II ISP), Cisco and Juniper platform.
Access Network designing and deployment.
MPLS Expansion Project
Designing and deploying multiple MPLS POPs.
Design and implementation L2 circuit and L2VPN using Martini and Kompella Draft using Juniper M7i and J-6350 and Cisco 2960 and 3550 Switches.
Design and configure BCP and DR site for multiple customers.
Successfully installation and configuration of VMware hypervisor 5.5.
IMPLEMENTATION EXPERIENCE
BGP peering with multiple customers.
NMS Server’s (MRTG & RANID) over Linux deployment.
Work on Cisco 7200, C3845, 2800 router, Cisco 3750, 3560, 2960 Switches, Juniper M7i and J-6350 routers.
Work on Alcatel FR switches Main Street 3600 and Cisco AS 5300 as FR switch.
Strong understanding and implementation skills of routing protocols (RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP-4)
Strong implementation knowledge of switching concepts (VLANs/Inter VLAN Routing, STP/RSTP/RPVST/MST, Multilayer Switching)
Implementation of Ether channel (L2/L3) and redundancy protocols HSRP/VRRP/GLBP between Core switches.
Implementing and configuring Class Map, Policy Map.
Understanding and configuring various types of NAT like Static, Dynamic, PAT and Overlapping NAT.
MPLS VPN implementation on Cisco and Juniper.
Good knowledge and understanding of MPLS traffic engineering.
Configuration and maintenance of Static and Dynamic LSPs establishment through Signaling/label distribution protocols LDP and RSVP.
Configuration and maintenance of JUNOS implementation of Layer2 VPNs based on Martini and Kompella draft specifications: l2vpn and l2circuits.
Configuration and maintenance of implementation of Layer3 BGP/MPLS VPN.
Hands on knowledge of JUNOS Firewall filters, policer, routing instances and policy statements
Supernet Limited | www.super.net.pk | \[Nov 2011 - To date\]
(Network Engineer - Core)
Responsibilities:
- Technical Customer Support - Level 2.
- Layer 2/3 Core Networks.
- Designing and Solution Development.
- Technical documentation.
- Maintenance of Core Linux/Unix Servers.
- Smooth Operations of Nationwide Internet POP (Point of Presence).
- Making and maintaining SOPs for general operations.
- Configuration, Management & Troubleshooting of Nationwide MPLS Network.
- Meetings and Presentations.
Projects:
- Frame Relay POP upgraded to MPLS POP.
- Designing and deployment of multiple MPLS POP (MPLS Expansion Project).
- Configure Network Management System Servers (MRTG/RANCID) on Linux.
- Designing and deployment of Internet POP at Peshawar.
Worked as an Internee in NSS Department at Mobilink (PMCL) since 1-SEPT-2010 - 26-NOV-2010.
My key responsibilities includes:
Operations and maintenance of network, issues related to voice, Data Subscriber Provision and Short Messaging.
Alarm Monitoring and troubleshooting of all South MSCs.
Hardware related issues of all South MSCs.
No Audio & Regular Call testing MSC, BSC and GMSC to ensure quality of service in the network.
Backup of the MSCs on every 15 days to handle any emergency situation.
Daily and weekly reports that includes preventive maintenance, outages and Health checks.
Cisco Optical Technology - OPT 200
Cisco Certified Network Professional Engineer. CCNP Switch (Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks) 642-813. CCNP Route (Implementing Cisco IP Routing) 642-902. CCNP TShoot (Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks) 642-832. Cisco ID: CSCO11987360
Juniper Networks Certified Associate JUNOS (Training).
Linux Server Operation Training.
I have passed the online exam in june 2011 for Cisco Certified Network Associate . Cisco ID: CSCO11987360