SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in IT industry as computer networker.
• A technical mind with absolute passion to build responsive, measureable, redundant and state of the art network infrastructure.
• A pragmatic and focused individual with proven and verifiable track record of deploying mission critical network infrastructure.
• Expertise in network routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, policy routing and route distributions.
• Understanding in network high availability protocols like HSRP, VRRP, FHRP, Fabric Path and vPC+, OTV technolgies
• Expertise in installing, configuring Cisco, Fortinet & Juniper Firewalls, failover, VPNs and SSL offloading.
• Understanding of Information and data security compliance i.e ISO27001 and PCI DSS.
• Expertise in hardware load balancers i.e F5 and Cisco Load balancers and scripting for network automation
• Very well familiar with internet eco system, bgp peerings, autonomous systems, and managing internet registrar ip pools allocations.
• Expertise in network security technologies in multi - vendor environment like firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, SSL offloading, WAF(web application firewalls) and SIEM.
• Experience in multi-site datacenter deployments, multi-homing, Cisco and F5 content load balancing and disaster recovery solutions.
• Equipped with industry standard certifications like PMP (project management professional), CCIE (Cisco certified internetwork expert),CCDE, Juniper JNCIA, JNCIS
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in application focused infrastructure with the help of packet sniffers and understanding of TCP/IP stack over network.
• Handling mission critical infrastructure providing services to public, government and leading financial sector entities with high availability handling millions of transaction per week.
• Experience in developing network security compliance for PCI DSS and ISO27001 framework.
• Ability to automate routine network jobs via bash/shell scripts and perform routine network operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, designing and deployment of network infrastructure (internet, intranet) consist of Cisco 6500, 4500 switches.
• Responsible for configuration of routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP) and ensuring optimized routing throughout network infrastructure.
• Ensuring networking security by installing firewalls, configuring failover and policy enforcement via TACACS/Radius and single sing on for emaratech.
• Responsible for implementing network resiliency, disaster recovery strategies, new technology evaluation and network infrastructure deployments across datacenter network.
• Develop and implement network deployment principal as per industry security standards i.e PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
• Handling complex troubleshooting across network lay via TCP/IP packet captures and troubleshooting application layer issues.
• Ensuring network security via Firewalls (Application and state full), VPNs, security policies, IPS/IDS deployment across network layer.
• Ensuring network monitoring, incident and problem detection across multi-tier network and achieving business SLAs.
• Change management, vulnerability scanning and management for more than 7 datacenters.
• Network infrastructure maintenance contracts, new procurements, technical and commercial bid evaluation and product selection
• Responsible for negotiating the price, terms and conditions of contracts and ensures compliance with local legal requirements and emaratech policies and procedure
• Ensuring compliance for vendors to meet contractual, maintenance and support obligations.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

• Supervising team of technical engineers responsible for 24*7 NOC operations throughout country with maximum (99.5%) availability.
• Responsible for maintenance & management of IP network using OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing protocols for dynamic routing.
• Responsible for maintaining/operating, troubleshooting, configuring MPLS core provisioning L2, L3 data connectivity to corporate customers.
• Maintaining Frame Relay network provisioning point-to-point and point-to-multipoint data connectivity within 18 cities.
• Responsible for Frame-Relay network built over Alcatel main street TDM/bandwidth manager
• Working with Sales team as technical consultant for IP/MPLS related projects, to overcome technical intricacies without compromising quality/performance/reliability.
• Directly managing smooth implementation of new technologies by creating work plans, performing research and evaluating resources, supervising productivity, and ensuring satisfactory outcomes
• Proactively resolving/assigning complains to team & technical coordination with different departments in order to resolve complains asap.
• Single-handedly managing/operating Linux/RHEL/Slackware platforms providing SMTP, POP, DNS, FTP, Apache, proxy, NMS tools(MRTG, Cacti) services and shell scripting in order to automate network /backups.
• Responsible for formulating, devising periodic network up gradation and backup plan and implementing effectively as well, without any downtime and removing single point of failure.
• Analyze and evaluate the outage of transmission media reports and escalate problems to high-ups.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential 

• Responsible for management, operation and maintenance of medium size network operation center (NOC), providing Internet services within tier-1 (KHI, LHR, ISB) cities.
• Develop/Implement scalable, redundant IP network topology designs (LAN/WAN) for corporate customers.
• Identify research, evaluate and implement VOIP (H323, SIP) network solutions to customers and inbound/outbound call termination and integration with IP PABX systems.
• Single handedly devised and managed Network monitoring system, providing effective network administration with necessary tools using linux/unix based platforms.
• Resolving IP / VOIP network issues, creating backup and maintenance plans in order to improve network efficiency and smooth provision of internet services in 24*7 operations.