BBO Network Engineer
Etisalat
Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months
Responsible for daily O&M activities related to Etisalat IP/POP Point of Presence consisting of Cisco 6500, ASR9K, Nexus 7K. POP Services include BRAS, leased line, Co-location services, Service Layer traffic related to mobile signaling/billing and peering with emirates internet exchange etc.
Perform level-3 support functions for network problems in accordance with the Incident/Problem management process, on-call support and escalate problems to vendors as required.
Participated in the migration projects like core capacity expansion, distributed proxy, distributed DNS, POP capacity expansion, optimization of service layer convergence as per organizational process & procedures and to generate documentation including detailed test plan for these tasks.
Produced / implemented Low Level Design & configurations for new Internet PoP (Point of Presence) at West Coast region
I am the device owner to perform day to day network configuration changes in response to network expansion and operational requirements and health checks for the all the core devices in Northern Emirates Region ( SHJ, UAQ, AJM, FUJ and RAK).
Participated in the IPv6 Core infrastructure deployment project for 6PE & ISIS for IPv6 and to generate documentation and detailed test plan.
Responsible for daily O&M activities related to OBN (out-of-band network) and provisioning new devices
Monitoring, maintaining troubleshoot and ensure the availability of the entire core Etisalat network including upstream providers, public & private peerings, co-location customers, EMIX (Emirates Internet Exchange) customers and access layer (Leased Line routers, BRAS )
Configuring, maintaining, advertising networks, troubleshooting & handling day to day inquiries of lease line, EMIX customers for providing high quality of service.
Configuring and troubleshoot BGP, OSPF & Static routes for customers & provide support to resolve complex, technical customer problems
Defining Security Policies for co-location customers
Managing and troubleshoot VPN Tunnels, Client to NET & NET to NET and security policies for collocation customers of Etisalat Data Centre using PIX and ASA firewalls
Provide consultancy in upcoming new & upgrading projects.
Provisioning new uplinks and traffic engineering for network advertisements
Handling day to day EMIX customer inquiries and ensuring to provide solution according to SLA
Responsible of making the detail report monthly performances of the section employees
Responsible of making hazardous and incidents details reports of internet operation section
Managing Staff requirements and insuring availability of 24/7 shifts requirements
Providing technical presentation, orientation & trainings to the internal staff & customer care center.
Giving presentation to the management for the annual staff evaluation on the bases of specific criteria.
Ensures the corporate network is always up and running at maximum efficiency.
Provide consultancy in upcoming new & upgrading projects.
Designing the network topology for the new infrastructure of the organization
Design the overall IP addressing schema for internet and extranet
Designing a road map for migration of Microsoft licenses
Managing the network & system infrastructure for Oil Vessels
Building a network infrastructure and migration of roles and applications
Managing SAN and Windows cluster servers
Scheduling Backups for servers by using Tape library
Providing support for satellite links of Oil Vessels
Providing support to end users.
Routing and Switching configuration of data network for availability and for the new sites .
Coordination with Vendor for problem identification and rectification
Monitor, Maintain and Manage Wide area data network
Routing and switching configuration of data network for availability and for the new sites
Coordination with Vendor for problem identification and rectification
Produce database traffic reporting for performance analysis
Prepare the LLD (Low level design) for the network
Consultancy on various LAN/WAN projects to various clients.
Member of a network project team working for a software and hardware installation for the clients.
Responsible for the management of labs
Check for New Hacks, Threads and Virus attacks and how to get rid of them by maintaining Trend Micro enterprise version Antivirus.
Implementing and administrating company centralized FESD Biometrics Security system
Ensures the corporate network is always up and running at maximum efficiency.
Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Servers(Domain Controller, Exchange, File and Print, ISA)
Designing and implementing a VPN tunnels with remote branches and mobile users
Builds and maintains Visio documentations of Network Topology
Configuring, maintaining and implementing customer router and WAN links on Frame Relay
Implementing Wan Radio links using Radio modems (P-com/Cylink), 128S, 126S, 384S, 512S (S-Band)
Providing Data Center Network
Managing site to site connectivity of all the branches of (Pakistan State Oil & State Bank of Pakistan)
I was supporting corporate clients, Implementation and Administration of network environment consisting of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Provide Networking solutions like administration of servers, maintenance and upgrade of networks. Installation and maintenance of computer Labs of more then 150 nodes.
CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert in Routing and Switching)