Imran Khan Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

•Operations,Maintenance,Deployment, Expansions and Integration of Sinch OCS,PCRF & Diameter Firewall.•Developing business logics related to data services and its charging and configuring and advice on PCRF policies.•In depth knowledge and experience of 4G and 5G data services and IMS. •Administer and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers , hosting Sinch OCS/PCRF.•Perform installations, configurations, kernel upgrades and version upgrades of RHEL Enterprise servers that includes FTP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, IPTables, mangle tables and LDAP setup on RHEL servers;•AWS configurations including IAM, VPCs, VPC peering, VPC endpoints, VGW, Route53 and AWS automation using CloudFront, AWS CLI, terraform and Ansible with BOTO3 and creating OpenStack HEAT templates for automation in OpenStack.•Administer and maintain VMWare vSphere, configure, and maintain VMFS and iSCSI datastores, create and maintain RDS setup where required, performing VMs migration in VMWare cloud for ESXi SW upgrades and analyzing current dimensions of VMWare cluster and suggest for expansions. •Administer Oracle 12/19c databases including Planning and performing Oracle ASM and database backups expansions, configure and maintain DB backups through RMAN, golden gate replication and maintain active/standby replication via data guard.•Troubleshoot and resolve system issues including network issues, database issues, hardware failures and application-level failures.•Involved in handling of HP servers’ hardware related issues (DL380 Gen10, DL380 Gen9, DL380 Gen10), firmware upgrades, arrange for replacement of faulty controllers and hard disks, analyze AHS logs.•Create SOW for hardware expansions and upgrades and maintain system documentation, including configurations files and troubleshooting guides, creating incident reports .•Close collaboration with sales/project Teams in expansion activities.Skills: Ansible scripting ,red hat, VM, dockers, kubernetes, terraform, oracle, golden gate

United Arab Emirates

Responsibilities include:Operations and Maintenance of Rhel servers, VMWare Cluster, Oracle 12C/19CSystem upgrades to latest version that includes Symsoft software upgrade, apply patches for fixing bugs and functionality modifications.RedHat OS kernel upgrades and version upgradesPatches Installation for new functions and corrections on Symsoft OCS.Operations and maintenance of Oracle19C, CISCO switches, HP servers

Dso Dubai

Back office support engineer Etisalat UAE.Handling O&M on Huawei SGW,UGW,SGSN, GGSN, CG and DNS and Huawei MMSC. Configuring and troubleshooting CISCO and Huawei routers and switches in GPRS/LTEnetwork and use of Wireshark for troubleshooting various issues in GPRS/LTE network.Configuring and troubleshooting IPSec VPN between enodeBs and Huawei IPSec gatewayin LTE network and addition of EnodeBs in IPSec gateway.Direct interface and coordination with other groups and departments within Etisalat and outside corporate customers in terms of network related concerns.Handling traffic distribution in case of emergencies or high traffic case in one region.Configuration of RIPv2,OSPF,BGP,VRFs,roaming partners,map zone codes on SGSN and routers and switches involved.Troubleshooting various technical issues related to CPCI and ATCA PS platform(SGSN and GGSN).Monitoring PS KPI and system health checks on regular basis and informing planning team for required considerations if and where required.Handling and troubleshooting IR related issues specially for UAE VIP customers.Troubleshooting corporate customers GPRS based ATM machines,GPRS based traffic parking machines.Use of Wire shark for analysing various SGSN and GGSN traces and for troubleshootingBlackberry related issues and specially for handling outbound roaming customers.Handling GPRS charging related technical issues and suggesting correction techniques for its resolution.Handling LTE complaints and KPI reports on regular basis.

United Arab Emirates

Islamabad

Ο&Μ οf VAS services: Huawei GPRS, WAP, MMSC, KVSMS and USSD.Huawei SGSN 9810 and GGSN 9811 configuration and maintenance.BGP and VPN configurations and troubleshooting on Huawei NE-40 router that is acting as BG router in VAS domain.Huawei CG 9812 configuration and maintenance.Resolving GRPS connectivity issues by taking traces at different interfaces.Operation and maintenance troubleshooting for GPRS services (internet browsing, MMS, and WAP) and all GPRS/PS interfaces.Configuration of new APNs, new IMSI range, and any other related configurations like (Gb, Gr,Gi and Gn configuration).Implementation & testing of new features at GPRS node.Roaming partners definition on GPRS platformAnalyze the network KPIs Reports for WAP,USSD,KVSMS and MMSC and recommend changesTroubleshooting USSD services by taking CAP/INAP and Diameter traces using MTrace.Looking after the VPN tunnel to ensure successful MM4 delivery to other Operator.Establishment of IPSec VPN (GRX Link) between CMPak and Aicent involving BGP and GRE tunnel.

Perform installation, deployment and configuration for Cisco Routers,Switches and CISCO Call Manager at customer sites.Performing figuration changes on network elements as per requirements and troubleshooting.

Be, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEEComputer Engineering

F.Sc, Pre-Engineering

Activities and Societies: Cricket team member Dramatic competetionPre-Engineering