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• As a part of the Global Network Ops team, responsible for managing the 4 Datacenter infrastructures on Cisco NXOS 9K and Cisco ACI capable data center fabric. • Configuration and management of inter DCs MPLS, L3 VPNs for different cloud clients • Edge gateways routing on BGP with full feed and doing policy routing with BGP attributes. • Design ACI fabric to ensure each client tenant is redundant and secured and has • segmentations from each using separate L2/L3 outs. • In Corporate VXLAN with EVPN and BGP, migration from classic architecture to spine-leaf for ACI support. • Manage all clients' tenants on the ASAv platform for security from others and manage IPsec for clients to different remote nodes like AWS and AZURE or on-prem.

• Leading the Global NOC team and managed operational tasks. • As a part of the GNOC team, I am mainly responsible of maintaining 100 % Network Availability • Manage complete Datacenter Network operations based on Cisco NXOS 7K, 9K based VPCs. • Manage Site-to-Site IPSec VPNs (IKEv1, IKEv2, VTI) with Different Clients through the glob • Working experience on Cisco Firewalls like ASA 5555-X. ASA-5525-X , Firepower, FTD 21XX, 41XX To manage IPS/IDS on the edges and as a VPN concentrator for Site-to-Site and remote VPNs • Manage Multiple Services and WAF on BIG IP F5 and F5 APM and ASM • iRules scripting for traffic manipulation • SSL Offloading and Certificate Management • Load Balancing (Layer 4/7), Persistence, Health Monitoring • Manage Web-based filtering on NGFW like Palo Alto and Fortinet • Manage Site-to-Site VPN and User-based UTM access on SonicWALL Firewall TZ series and Virtual. • Complete management of DMZ and network security on Sonic Wall • Having Global Connectivity of around 7 Different data centers and more than 20 offices in the USA, Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Pakistan, and Turkey. • Manage Local Connectivity and Routing environments like BPG, MPLS, OSPF, GRE, • Working Experience on Cisco Nexus Switches, 9300, 9200, and Cisco Routers like ISR 4400, 4500, 4300 Series, and ASRs. • Manage Cloud tenants as well like Azure and GCP. Having hand on experience in managing AZURE User defined routing and deploying F5 into Azure and Azure Native WAF as well. • Planning Day to day Network Activities, migration, and optimization • Manage complete Documentation of GNOC and Manage Teams for 24/7 operations

• Leading & managing the team of Network Professionals involved in the designing, technical presales & IP operations for Layer-2/Layer-3 data & internet circuits, MPLS IP Transit, L2/L3 VPN services. • Design and build ISP Teir-2 / 3 level datacenter based on Huawei Edge devices like NE-20 and NE-40 with 5800 and 6800 series switches, including switches (S Series), routers (AR Series). • Integrated Huawei CE6851-48S6Q-HI Core switches, Managed Layer 2/3 switching on S5720-28X-SI-AC, S5735-L24T4S-A based access layers • Assisting subordinates in trouble shooting daily routine network related issue. • End to end solution design from preparation for the network up-gradation on access, distribution & core layer till customer end deployment. • Planning, Design and implementation of upgradation and redundancy of Metro Ethernet fiber POPs. • Managing and configuration of auto heel redundant fiber Rings using STP, RSTP and REP. • Design, Maintenance and Provisioning of MPLS based L2, L3 VPN circuits. • Troubleshooting Core Network and Access Layer devices. • Q-in-Q circuit design and provisioning for corporate customer through Metro Ethernet Ring. • QoS implementation on Layer 2 and Layer 3 circuits. • Planning and Commissioning of DPLC and IPLC • Responsible of Deploying Layer 2 / Layer 3 auto Failover for customers and maintaining 100 % uptime. • Configuration and Troubleshooting with TEIR-1 Operators for BGP Peering’s, MPLS connectivity and NNI connectivity and TEIR-2 / TEIR-3 Operators for Layer-2 connectivity. • Manage Virtual infrastructure of services on EXSi 6.0/5.5, install and configure different services like BIND DNS, SMTP servers, Voice Gateways and Data Center design and cabling. • Monthly Tasks assignments to NOC team members and evaluation, Team Trainings over different technologies. • Complete Network Reporting, documentation and Project proposals.

• Managing and configuration of WAN link aggregations between different sites. • Interaction to ISPs for different link, layer 2, layer 3 VPN data links, • MPLS and BGP peering with ISPs in all regions connectivity. • Managing and deployment of CME for inter site communications and communication with remote DSNGs via satellite links. • Configurations of QoS and policy based routings in all regions on Cisco 2900, 3800, 7200. • Design and implement network operation in all regions and plan and implement proper redundancy of all WAN circuits and manage traffic flow. • Planning and development for the upgradation of Network and assign different projects to network team in all regions. • Complete Enterprise network security using Cisco ASAs 5510, 5550 firewalls and IPS/IDS management using Panda GDP e9100 and using Pfsense for some projects. • Schedule weekly meetings with all team members in all regions. • Complete documentation of Network dept. and reporting to Director IT.

• Configuring and managing Cisco switches 3750, 3550, 2960, 2950 in multi VLAN environment for data and voice. • Monitoring and troubleshooting Enterprise Network using PRTG, solar wind SYSLOG, Net flow analyzer, NPN Orion server, Cacti server. • Deployment, commissioning and configuration of WAN circuits (E1, MPLS) in all offices, locally in Lahore and remotely in USA, China and Philippines. • Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco 3700, 3800, and 2800 series routers for routing between corporate office in USA and branch offices in Lahore, China and Philippines (EIGRP, OSPF, Access control and policy based routing). • Configuring Cisco ASA5515 and PIX 515 for network security and IPsec VPN to multiple clients to different location. • Deploying and configure redundancy of all P2P link using IPsec GRE tunnels. • Server administration and configurations of DNS, FTP, DC, ADC, Proxy Squid, DHCP.

• Configurations, maintenance and troubleshooting of IP Core. • Working on Huawei S9300, S3300 L2/L3 core switches. • Configuration of Huawei NE40E, NE20 edge routers for BGP peering and MPLS with Upstream provider (TWA). • Working on WASN (WiMAX Access Service Network) gateway of WiMAX Core. • 24/7 monitoring and troubleshooting of Lahore Qubee Network using Huawei M2000, Orion server, Cacti Server. • Interacting and escalations to multiple Media Providers like Nexlinx, Wateen and FiberLink. • Escalations of Operation and maintenance Issues to Field team and Colocation Partners

• Configuring and managing Cisco switches 3750 and 2950 in multi VLAN environment for data and voice. • Configuring and managing Windows server 2003 based DHCP Server, File Servers, FTP • Managing Windows server based Domain Controllers and ADC. • Monitoring and troubleshooting Enterprise Network using PRTG, solar wind SYSLOG, Net flow analyzer. • Monitoring and Troubleshooting SIP based Asterisk VICI DIAL Server. • Providing the Level-1 IT support to Users.