Muhammad Ali Shaikh

• Designing On-prem and Cloud Networks
• Customer solutions and consultancy
• Document Solutions and present them to internal and external parties.
• Plan Network infrastructure changes and document it to handover to the implementation teams
• Audit and evaluation of existing infrastructure and propose technological uplifts in DC and Cloud
• Create Engineering Documents for Service Delivery and Operations Teams.
• Implementing security best practices as per PCI-DSS on Fortinet Fabric for financial customers.
• POC and testing new solutions.

• Designing Core Network and Customer Solutions
• Manage and implement the maintenance and upgrade of Network Infrastructure
• Plan Network infrastructure changes and document it to handover to the implementation teams
• Capacity planning and change management.
• Create Engineering Documents for Service Delivery and Operations Teams.
• Liaising with vendors like Cisco, Juniper and F5 for Core network Upgrade project.
• Fortify Core/Edge/Access Networks by implementing best practices to enhance security and
stability.
• Present new/innovative solutions for underlying network problems

• Designing Core Network and Customer Solutions
• Manage and implement the maintenance and upgrade of Network Infrastructure
• Build network infrastructure to support presence in Metro and Regional areas of Australia.
• Document existing infrastructure and standardization of future network solutions.
• Capacity planning and change management.
• Network Automation using Ansible on Juniper and Arista Platforms.
• Liaising with vendors like Cisco, Juniper and F5 for Core network Upgrade project.
• Project management and delivery
• Fortify Core/Edge/Access Networks by implementing best practices to enhance security and
stability.
• Develop Network Monitoring and Management systems.

• Technical contact point for the OPTUS Juniper Evolve, Cisco Direct Internet Access, Ethernet to
the Building, and Ethernet to the Data centre
• Involved in change management and major network upgrades for all above networks.
• Maintenance of Technical documentation
• Capacity planning for Juniper Evolve Network
• Liaise with different Technical internal and external teams for project execution and delivery.
• Engagement with various Business units as well as IT, operations, and dependent workgroups such
as Infrastructure, transmission, IME teams, design, business engagement teams and access
engineering groups
• Mentoring junior group members

• Provide First Level of Support for ensuring Availability of Global Network Infrastructure of
Amazon Web Services & Retail Infrastructure.
• Coordinate with Network Engineering Teams in different regions around the world to Resolve
network issues.
• Perform configuration Management for Network Devices.
• Work on the improvement of existing processes used for the resolution of Network issues.
• Work on the Automation to reduce the time of existing processes and increase productivity.

• Responsible troubleshooting Customer related Network issues
• Responsible of Upgrading and Maintenance of Network infrastructure
• Responsible for liaising with Access providers and Upstream carrier to resolve Network issues.
• Responsible for engaging with Vendors such as IBM, Juniper, Velocloud and Fortigate.
• Coordinating with customers and departments within Macquarie
• Provide feedback to Engineering teams regarding network design issues and product designs.
• Troubleshooting services such as Data, SIP, Firewalls and SDWAN

• Responsible for provisioning/troubleshooting various network technologies.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting network issues on Cisco, Juniper, Fortigate Platforms
• Creating procedures and automated scripts to reduce network provisioning time and improve
quality.
• Delivering SIP solutions to the customer on Broadsoft platform
• Provisioning/troubleshooting of QoS on Juniper and Cisco equipments
• Provisioning/troubleshooting of Dynamic routing Protocols such as BGP, OSPF and EIGRP
• Resolving issues related to MPLS L2VPN and L2VPN
• Provisioning/troubleshooting on firewalls (Fortigates, VeloCloud, Lucent Brick)
• Maintaining records on Radius, and Brocade switches

• Service Provider Core Network Designing and Planning.
• Configuration/Designing of Cybernet core Routing, Switching and MPLS infrastructure.
• Designing/Planning/Configuration of Multicast Networks in Data Center for VoD and Digital TV.
• Administration and Configuration of SRX and Fortigate Firewall appliances.
• Providing Level-3 technical assistance to customer support and TAC departments for operational
issues.
• Participate in the migration projects like POP & core capacity expansion.
• Configuration and Planning of Cybernets Carrier grade BNG/CGN Networks.
• Configuration and administration of Solarwinds and linux servers for network automation.
• PAT Testing of Network Equipments.

• Configuration and administration of Microsoft Servers (Win2003 & Win2008).
• Configuration and administration of Linux Servers (Centos, Ubuntu).
• Configuration and administration of services such as DNS, IPTABLES, FTP, DHCP etc.
• Configuration and administration of Cisco ASA 5510.
• Configuration and Coordination with Telcos for VPN tunnels on Cisco IOS.

• Provide comprehensive support for nationwide LAN and WAN hard-wired and wireless systems.
• Administration of more than 40 MPLS/IP enabled POPs running IP/MPLS VPN and broadband
services.
• Provide 24x7 on-calls and on-site level-3 technical support to Network Operation Center.
• Working on Internet infrastructure including DSL, Metro Ethernet, GPON and IP backbone all
around Pakistan.
• Implementation/ Optimization of CYBERNET nationwide IP/ MPLS network.
• Corporate & Consumer Circuit configuration & management.
• Communicating engineering issues with Tier 2 (Upstream SP)
• Monitoring CYBERNET Country wide Network Infrastructure.
• Operations & Management of CYBERNET/Customer network.
• Base line analysis and fine tuning of CYBERNET infrastructure & services.
• Planning, testing, implementation and troubleshooting at nationwide POPs (point of presence)
• Configuring MRTG and SNMP in Linux environments.
• Configuring GPON Customers on Alcatel Lucent AMS Huawei U2000 Clients.

as an Internee in the Fiber Optic Transmission Department.
• Worked on DWDM and SDH technologies.
• Optical Fiber Network Monitoring
• Co-Location Maintenance and Learning Optical Fiber
• Learning E1 to STM conversions