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Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Working as Level 2 Back office engineer on IGW (Internet Gateway) project.• Responsible for Traffic manipulation on international transit links IPT, Public and private peering’s.• Responsible for new configuration deployment with IPT’s, Public and private peering’s including CDNs.• Responsible for Network fault detection and rectification, network management and troubleshooting faults at IGW layer including ACI devices and CGNs.Devices: Cisco NCS-5500, ASR9K, ACI fabric, CACTI, etc.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Leading multiple teams of 10-15 engineers in technical and line management capacity • L3 support to customer for Huawei IPMPLS, BRAS and RAN project.• Quarterly Preventive Maintenance & Corrective Maintenance• Periodically evaluate the network subscriber growth patterns and assess these trends. • Recommending strategies to maximize the use of the available capacity and plan incremental network capacity for future growth.• Responsible to manage the integration of new network element according to the planned network rollout schedule.• Leading periodic configuration Audits and network risk assessment.• Assisting in network design, identifying and building solutions.• Providing deployment guidance to ensure that implementations are consistent with design specifications• Support service provisioning and software upgrade/update activities.• Providing support to other Huawei projects in ITC including 5G, LTE, wimax and transmission. • Daily network maintenance and optimization of performance through NMS U2000 for ITC network.• Responsible for work achievement, particular issue and solution report, the pending issue and its progress, work plan and customer queries during daily activity.• Trained and develop technical skills for more than Huawei Devices: NE40-X16, NE40-X8 NE40-X3, NE40-X2, ME60, ATN980C, NE8K, Firewall USG9520, NMS U2000, NCE-IPProject: Huawei ITC IPMPLS BB & BRAS Swap C Project, ITC 5G Project.Project: Huawei ITC IPMPLS Software Upgrade

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Lead team of 10 engineers providing technical guidance on network infrastructure projects• Administer and Maintain Huawei Micro data centre solution that incorporates servers (E9000), network and security devices, cloud operating systems (OSs) and integrated management software (Fusion Cube).• Implement vitalization using Citrix, Hyper-V and VMware.• Manage Private Cloud Solution including Huawei VDI thin clients (CT6000).• Manage IP PBX with Huawei eSpace U1910 solution for eSpace 7900 series.• Maintained Huawei wireless access control (AC6005) and access points with required updates and patches.• Enhance security by applying policies on Huawei firewall USG2200.• Maintain CCTV eSpace NVR6128 monitoring system.• Configure L2tp/IPsec and SSL VPN for outside network secure access.• Analyse and evaluate new or enhanced tools and network technologies.• Configure virtual machines and provide access to users.• Solve multiple enterprise issues in coordination with Huawei technical team.Tools: Huawei Fusion Cube/Sphere/Manager/Access, Huawei AC6005, AP 6010, Huawei Esight, IBM Storewize 7000, Redhat enterprise Virtualization, IBM ToR switch G7028Projects:- Huawei Micro DC Smartcare Project- IBM Flex System for Big Data

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities• Lead technical team of 20 engineers for remote and onsite maintenance. • Level 2 support for Huawei IPMPLS projects as a TAC Engineer on routers acting as RTPE, PE, NPE & BRAS (Broadband Remote Access Server).• Diagnose network fault detection and rectification, network management, surveillance and troubleshooting faults.• Providing support to external customers including private and government enterprises, government sectors, agencies, Banks, ISPs, national and international companies.• Responsible for make technical conclusion for some outstanding issues.• Responsible to prepare & assign PMR (Preventive Maintenance Routine) tasks for each site include in project on monthly basis.• Responsible for Configuring, testing & integrating new network services & multi vendors (Nokia-Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel, Cisco & Juniper).• Perform Upgrading & implementation of software patches in approved Maintenance Downtime. • Bandwidth assignment and upgrade to the respective customer’s circuit.• Responsible to support & perform test with development team on Network Monitoring System CIC. • Perform network audit to enhance and optimize network performance.• Coordination with Egypt-TAC according to the severity level.• Monitoring network traffic, and activity, network alarms, capacity and usage to ensure continued integrity and optimal network performance through Network Monitoring System U2000 & CIC.Achievements:• Smooth Migration of BRAS nodes to centralized model.• Addition of Huawei BRAS/HRTPE/PE/NPE nodes in CIC monitoring tool after successful alarms testing with CIC development and operation team.• Successfully optimize Huawei data nodes configuration by providing templates to OPNET team and rectify/update/missing configurations. • Successful addition of Huawei Data nodes in WFMS.• Control congestion on uplinks by shifting the traffic reported by Huawei performance team.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ISP project; based on IP/MPLS with layer 2 and layer 3 VPN to enhance ISP traffic, on Mx480, Mx960 and T640 routers.VAS project; based on IP/MPLS on MX960 and M320 routers.Network fault detection and rectification, network management, surveillance and troubleshooting.Configuring circuits on MX-480 Metro Ethernet UPE.Configuring LACs, to tunnel the ISPs traffic on BRAS (ERX 1440, E320)Upgrade and degrade Juniper OS Junos versions and apply patches.Provide technical support services for Juniper devices to client Saudi Telecom. Network fault detection and rectification, network management, surveillance & troubleshooting.Broad band and DIA Circuits maintenance.Radius (SBR) parameters to be defined, deleted or added.Port, V-LAN assignment, configuration and troubleshooting.Maintain Broadband services through ERX1440 & E320 acting as LAC.Broadband service migration from Static to BGP based Dynamic bulk configuration.Junos & Junos-E upgrade and downgrade under Maintenance window.Monitor Juniper health through NMS (Dorado, InfoVista & CIC).Coordination with JTAC/ATAC according to the severity level.Bandwidth assignment and upgrade to the respective circuit.Traffic management to and from Juniper Devices.

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Bachelors, Computer Science

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