Overview
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Education
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Certification
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Shiv Kumar

Network Engineer
Karnal,Haryana
Shiv Kumar

Overview

10
years of professional experience
2
Certification

Work History

Colt Technology Services

Technical Lead
09.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Service assurance of Colt’s premium customers all across the globe
  • Ticket creation and troubleshooting on different switches, routers, and transmission devices to localize the fault location to resolve the issue
  • Fault, degrade, and RFO ticket handling for ethernet, VPN, and internet services
  • Operations of services running with SD-WAN technology
  • Customer communication over email and phone
  • Configuration and troubleshooting on routing and switching protocols like BGP, MPLS, ISIS, OSPF, VRRP, HSRP, STP, VPN solutions
  • Raising TAC cases with CISCO & JUNIPER Team for any hardware-related issues
  • Follow up with different cross-functional teams within Colt.

Global Cloud Xchange

Network Assurance Engineer-IP
08.2021 - 09.2022

Job overview

  • International customer service fault, degrade, and RFO ticket handling for IP-Transit, L3VPN, L2VPN & VPLS Services
  • Alarm monitoring and ticket creation for international IP Backbone & DCN networks
  • Customer communication over email and phone
  • Configuration and troubleshooting on routing and switching protocols like BGP, MPLS, ISIS, OSPF, HSRP, STP
  • Raising TAC cases with CISCO & JUNIPER Team for any hardware-related issues
  • Follow up with providers all across the globe to resolve customer and backbone network issues
  • Cross-functional follow-up to resolve the issue
  • Ticket creation and closure after service restoration with proper RFO communication with the customer.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

Network Engineer IP/Networks
09.2015 - 08.2021

Job overview

  • Handle a team of 6 I&C Engineers and 38 Backhaul Engineers across Haryana Circle for new sites deployment
  • Documenting the high/low-level test design, test cases, and method of procedure (upgrade/downgrade)
  • L2 level support to field engineers for configuration, troubleshooting, and iOS upgrade of routers and switches at different nodes in the network
  • Coordinating with L3 engineers for further troubleshooting, testing, and resolving configuration and HW issues
  • Configuration template creation (MOP) and planning of maintenance window for New Link augmentation, ring shifting activity, MW to fiber Conversion, MW take-off shifting, etc
  • Service Delivery of enterprise WAN links L3VPN, L2VPN, ILL, and SIP-Trunk with end-to-end responsibilities of configuration, testing with the customer, and final acceptance
  • Troubleshooting on BGP, MPLS, ISIS and OSPF, L2VPN, L3VPN 5G upgradation, card migration, Cell sites bandwidth upgrade from 1G to 10G.

CISCO SYSTEM

Project Co-ordinator
04.2015 - 09.2015

Job overview

  • Close coordination with the Project Manager of the client organization for daily progress and project delivery
  • L2 Support to field engineer for configuration and troubleshooting on Cisco routers ASR 903, 920i, 920o, and 901 at the client’s new sites
  • Handle team of 40+ engineers & 4 vendors for ensuring effective and timely installation and commissioning of routers at different nodes
  • Coordination with cross-functional teams like Microwave, fiber, and infra teams for ensuring the necessary requirements for integration of the site
  • Maintaining the project-related database and sharing daily progress reports with all stakeholders within the organization and clients’ different teams.

Wipro Infotech Ltd

Coordinator
03.2014 - 04.2015

Job overview

  • Airtel-Iwan- Pole, mast installation- Infra Coordinator for North region
  • Amco-saft -BB I&C on sites- Team Lead in North region
  • ATM TIS Project- Client-location Mumbai Lead a team of 50+ circle coordinators and Engineers for infra projects
  • WCC collection from circle teams and handover to Billing team
  • Problem resolution as per proper escalation matrix
  • Joint visits with customers wherever required to resolve the issues.

Education

Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra, Haryana

Bachelor of Technology

Skills

  • CCNP Certified
  • SDWAN Certified
  • Routing and switching
  • Firewalls
  • F5 Load Balancer
  • Basics of Linux and Python
  • Cloud
  • Data Center
  • Networking Protocols and Technologies: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, LDP, STP, VTP, VRRP, HSRP, NTP, DHCP, DNS, GRE, Etherchannel, LACP, NAT, PAT, SR-MPLS, VXLAN, VPC
  • Hardware: Cisco Basic 1000 Series, ASR Series, NCS 5508, NCS 5501, ISR 4400, Nexus, Juniper MX960, M320, MX480, ACX2200, Switches RAD, Techroute, Raisecom, Voltek, Extreme, Cisco, Juniper
  • Tools: Remedy, Siebel, Smarts, Hobbit, HPSM, Granite, Wireshark
  • Provisioning, Assurance, Upgradation, Multi-vendor
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Stack Development

Certification

  • Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNP - ENCOR), CSCO14005922, 04/2022
  • Versa SD-WAN Associate VNX100, 01/2024

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Technical Lead

Colt Technology Services
09.2022 - Current

Network Assurance Engineer-IP

Global Cloud Xchange
08.2021 - 09.2022

Network Engineer IP/Networks

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
09.2015 - 08.2021

Project Co-ordinator

CISCO SYSTEM
04.2015 - 09.2015

Coordinator

Wipro Infotech Ltd
03.2014 - 04.2015

Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra

Bachelor of Technology
Shiv Kumar Network Engineer