Senior Network Integration Engineer
NOKIA
Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months
IP/MPLS Projects
•Working on Network Modernization, New Network Deployment and Network Migration projects for Global Service Providers and Government Sector Networks with focus on Integration and Migration for NOKIA IP Platforms - 7x50 Service Routers, 7210 Service Access Switch, 7705 Service Access Routers, 7250 IXR Routers and 5620 SAM.
•Led Integration team of 10+ members to complete Integration of 650+ nodes on time successfully, involved in end-to-end planning, configuration, deployment and acceptance.
•Worked on multiple integration projects as an engineer or an integration lead to successfully deploy service provider, enterprise and government IP/MPLS networks.
•Worked on multiple Migration projects as a migration engineer or a migration lead to complete hundreds of nodes and thousands of services migration without any critical network outage, involved in end-to-end Migration Planning, Impact analysis, Writing MOP, Configuration and migration execution.
•Led automation efforts of large integration/migration projects which helped in faster delivery, reducing human error and resource requirement and ultimately contributed to timely project completions.
•Worked on multiple projects performing variety of Network Testing activities on NOKIA Lab, Customer Lab and Live Network. It includes Proof of Concept, Solution Testing, System Integration Testing, Migration Testing, Redundancy Testing, Certification testing etc.
•Executed multiple projects performing Software and Hardware upgrade for large number of devices.
SDN Projects
•Worked on deploying Telco DC cloud on multiple sites primarily focusing on providing underlay and overlay network connectivity through Nuage Data Center SDN solution and Nokia Leaf, Spine and Data center Gateway nodes.
•Worked on Leaf/Spine/DCG and Nuage Components integration and upgrades, service provisioning, service chaining, access filters and QoS implementation.
•Worked on end-to-end network troubleshooting to help onboard Nokia virtual EPC nodes and Nokia cloud band integration.
•Worked on node upgrade project involving upgrade of all SDWAN Nuage components which includes VSD cluster, VSCs, Network Service gateways, Proxy servers and Elastic search nodes.
of the major Projects executed were - Multiple MAC Registration Protocol over PBB-VPLS on ASR9K, CFM with NG ISSU on NCS6K, Label Switched Multicast OAM on ASR1K, Ethernet Virtual Circuit on N7K, Ethernet OAM on ISR-G2, CFM Over BGP Signaled VPWS on ASR9K.
•Lead the Teams for multiple Test Areas - Carrier Ethernet, MPLS OAM and Multicast. Developed required expertise and provided necessary Technical Support when needed.
•Responsible for scoping of Projects to decide the feasibility of taking up the DevTest activity for new features based on available man and hardware resources. This involved understanding of the requirements by multiple interactions with marketing, Development, Program Teams and with Teams directly engaging with the Customers.
•Involve in new feature development from design phase reviewing customer PRD documents, Feature SFS and designing test plan, executing feature test manually and automating test cases for regression.
•Focused on more Customer Scenario based testing and found many quality defects in feature interaction, scale, and performance areas.
•Actively participate in troubleshooting customer issues in Carrier Ethernet, MPLS OAM and Multicast areas.
•Work on reproducing customer defects on test setup and work with development team in validating fix.
•Work on validating SMUs before releasing it to Customer.
•Involved in Group Level Tool initiatives like CoST - Combined Security Testing (earlier GVT) that was selected in Top 20 amongst 80+ participations in the Cisco India wide competition - iExpo.
•Involved in organizing Events like “Troubleshooting day” at the BU level on the NoTED (NOSTG Test Day) that saw more than 100 Teams participating in the Event. The success of the event demanded it to be conducted again on the NOSTG Coding Day, which again saw more than 125 Test and Development Teams participating.
•Received multiple STAR awards for delivering excellence in different projects.
Junos Space (Juniper Network Provisioning System)
•Worked on MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, VPLS, BGP, OSPF and NETCONF protocols.
•Worked on Juniper M/MX series routers.
•Involved in entire project life cycle like taking part in Project Planning, Project Review and daily Scrum Meetings, Reviewing Function Specifications, Writing Test Plan, Test Execution, Reporting Bugs and Working with Developers to get the bugs fixed.
•Responsible for setting up and maintaining Network Topology to be used by team for testing.
•Carrying out Scale & Performance testing and work with development team to resolve scalability issues and performance tuning
•Baseline scalability & performance numbers.
•Carrying out Platform Security testing (Vulnerability Assessment) and work with development team to harden platform security.
•Testing and Certifying API’s to be used by other applications.
•Testing customer scenarios as part of Customer Solution Testing.
•Conducting Product TOI’s for customer solution teams.
•Playing a role of Technical Specialist in the team.
•Understand Customer Core and Access Network deployment.
•Work with Customer to provide EoMPLS and VPLS provisioning solution through Junos Space.
•Understand Customer SLA policies and provide solution for designing and provisioning QoS policies from Junos Space.
•Work on Junos Space issues reported by customer.
•Work with Engineering team to provide solution for customer issues and validate the solution.
Netscreen Security Manager
•Worked with Juniper IDS, IPS and Firewall Devices.
•Involved in entire project life cycle like Reviewing Function Specifications, Writing Test Plan, Test Execution, Reporting Bugs and Working with Developers to get the bugs fixed.
•Responsible for setting up and maintaining Network Topology to be used by team for testing.
•Testing IDP and Security policies for different device platforms like Standalone IDP, ISG and SRX Routers.
•Testing and Certifying API’s to be used by other applications.
•Carrying out Test Escape Analysis and incorporating test cases into respective feature.
•Work on NSM issues reported by customer.
•Work with Engineering team to provide solution for customer issues and validate the solution.
•Conducting Product trainings for Technical Support teams.
on Cisco ODC.
•Worked on Validating Remote Access Technology solutions.
•Worked on VPDN, PPP, ISDN and AAA technologies.
•Worked on 7600, 7200, 5400 series routers and switches.
•Setting up testing environment in a lab by implementing Network Topology.
•Configuring testing environment on Unix Servers.
•Configuring UNIX based AAA Servers (Merit, Livingston).
•Preparing Test Plan.
•Working with
Network Infrastructure for Gujarat Statewide Area Network.
•Played an important role in upgrading leased lines from 256kbps to 2mbps throughout the State network.
•Worked on Maintaining VoIP and Video Conferencing Network Infrastructure for State Govt. offices.
•Deployed LAN Infrastructure in City Govt. offices.
•Maintenance and Monitoring of point-to-point circuits.
•Configuring and Monitoring of Leased Lines between District Center and Taluk centers.
•Performing Connectivity checking, Reliability, Latency status and interacting with vendor.
•Implementing organizations security policy by configuring ACLs and AAA.
•Maintenance of Cisco 3662, 3845 and 1751 routers and catalyst 2900, 2950 switches.
•Monitoring and maintenance of LAN connections given to other offices through DAX 24-port Switches and Cisco 188 series ATA.