Senior Network Consultant
du Telecom
Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months
1. Large Scale Multi-Million dollar Project Design & Implementation for Data Centre’s, Government entities and Enterprises.
2. Lead Network architect and Project Manager for a new Collocation Data Centre that's hosting critical customer facing applications. Managed all aspects of deployment including budget, project management, vendor communication, Internet/MPLS circuits, SDN, Cloud Computing, end to end network and security build.
3. Spearheading E2E execution of newly built Datacentres for Mobile, IPTV, IT & Telecom Services that comprises of ASR9K, Nexus(9K, 7K, 5K, 2K), VSS, Citrix/F5 Load balancers, UCS, Firewalls (ASA 5585, FortiGate 3600, Juniper 3600), Cisco CRS, Cisco ASR, Cisco (7609, 7606, 6500), Nokia 7750 SR Routers, Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX.
4. Implementation, Design review, troubleshooting and Optimizations of LAN/WAN, Routing protocols (OSPF/EIGRP, BGP), MPLS VPN’s (L2/L3/VPLS), PBRs, Ethernet switching functionality and protocols: STP/RSTP/MSTP, VLAN, bridging, IP Multicasting and QoS.
5. Execution and troubleshooting of next generation Cisco’s SDN flavour - ACI for end to end service deployment of Tenants, EPGs, Application Profile, Access, Fabric policies with XML and GUI based implementations.
6. Hands on experience with VMWare technologies i.e. NSX, NSX-T, ESXi Hypervisor, vRealize, vCloud and vSphere Suite.
7. Hands on experience with Cloud computing technologies i.e. IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Amazon EC2, GCP Compute Engine, Amazon S3, Lambda, API Gateway, LightSail GuardDuty, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EFS, Elastic Block Storage, Amazon Glacier, Amazon SQS, Amazon SWF, Elastic load balancing.
8. Configuration, Design and troubleshooting on Firewall technologies (Stateful inspection, Security Rules/policies, Source and Destination NAT, IPSEC VPNs, Remote Access VPNs).
9. Manage and support F5 LTM/GTM and Citrix ADC Load balancer in pre-production and production environments.
10. Implementation, Design review, troubleshooting and Optimization of Datacentre technologies i.e. Fiber Channel, OTV (Overlay transport virtualization), VXLAN, Fabric Path, VPC (Virtual port channel) and Cisco UCS (Unified Communication system) technologies.
11. Extensive usage of basic networking utilities and protocols such as : ACL, ARP, DHCP, DNS, SSL, Flow Control, ICMP, LACP, LLDP, NAT, Open Flow, SNMP, TACACs, Radius, TCP/IP and performed packet flow analyses using Wireshark.
12. Network Performance management using PRTG, Dell EMC Watch4Net, BrixWorx tools and Implementing Optimization plan for the stability and high availability of IP Network.
13. Provide Tier 3 support for critical network Outages in Datacentre.
14. Working with Python scripts to minimize routine based CLI & XML deployment needs.
1. Configuration, Implementation and Troubleshooting of Routing Protocols i.e. RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS and BGP and MPLS L3/L2 VPNs.
2. Configuration, Implementation and Troubleshooting of VLANs, VTP, Multi-layer Switching, STP, MSTP, RSTP, PVST, Inter-VLAN Routing, Switch port Security, Ether Channel.
3. Configure and Manage APs, WLC using Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
4. Deployed ISE in wired environment to perform Dot1x port based authentication for users connecting to the corporate network
5. Preparing and reviewing commands set required for pre and post migrations of different services, verifications and troubleshooting.
6. Managing critical large scale network Upgrade activities to avail new feature sets and manage IOS life cycle timelines.
7. Develop and maintain Network documentation and procedures as necessary and required for Network Operations.
8. Develop the design strategies according to customer needs.
9. Coordinate and liaison with CISCO experts and TAC support.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical (Telecommunication) Engineering.
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