Sushil Soni
DC & Cloud Network Engineer
Pune,Maharashtra
Summary
Experienced and detail-oriented Network professional with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and secure DC, Telecom and Cloud network infrastructures. Expertise in configuring and managing Cisco Networking devices like Router, Switches and other networking equipment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Network Engineer
Vodafone Intelligent Services
Pune
01.2021 - Current
- ACI Contract analysis for removal of duplicated contracts
- Responsible for creating LLDs and provisioning of EPGs and BDs for new services as per HLD recieved
- Responsible for Provisioning and installing new leaf switches in fabricpath and ACI environment
- Design and implement Cisco ACI L3Out for different services and VRFs associated to
- Customer VPNs
- Planning and migrating legacy switching and routing infra to Cisco ACI
- Configuring Contracts and Route-map in Cisco ACI
- Provisioning new leafs into Cisco ACI infra
- Responsible for design and implementing Azure/AWS architecture for local market customers
- Architecting and Provisioning Direct Connect links and ExpressRoute Circuit and associated them with thier respective Virtual Gateways
- Provisioning SD-WAN C-Edge routers on AWS Cloud as EC2 instances via Terraform script
- Provisioning and modifying VPC Subnet Routing to reach on-prem and on-cloud applications
- Provisioning AWS Transit gateways, attachments and associated route table
- Provisioning IPSEC + BGP on Transit gateways and SD-WAN C-edge routers
- Responsible for provisioning route leaking and route-policy manipulation between different businesses' VRF on ASR9k and Nexus Routers.
Senior Network Engineer
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
Pune
11.2016 - 11.2020
- Provisioning and troubleshooting new customer on Cisco ACI Fabric- creating EPGs, L3
- Out, VRF, Filters and Contracts to enable communication between internal EPGs and
- Outside world through WAN and Internet
- Provisioning new Fabric Access policies and AEP Attachable Entity Profile
- Provisioning and troubleshooting L3 Out per customer VRFs
- Involved in making plan for software upgrade, technology upgrade from classic ethernet to modern technology like cisco fabricpath, VxLAN and ACI and hardware upgrade like EOL nx 5548 to nx 5672/5596
- Worked for client Sky Network Services (UK) –
- To get involved in Test plan making process where need to go through design requirement of Sky Network and accordingly making test plan
- To get involved on test plan review to make sure that test plan is as per design and rightly written
- To get involved in preparation of Testbed according to test plan
- To get involved in lab preparation
- Raising lab request through internal portal Redmine
- To get involved in test execution through ixia (a traffic generator tool)
- Test plan has many categories namely- Functional, Topological, Scalable, performance
- Security and management
- To get involved in change plan readiness and implementation.
Network Delivery Manager
Tata Communications Ltd
Pune
10.2011 - 11.2016
- Configuration of MPLS L3VPN, L2VPN, & Internet Lease line of Tata Enterprise
- Customers (Domestic & International) on Tata’s MPLS/IP Backbone
- Troubleshooting multicasting PIM related issue
- Troubleshooting of Customer’s issues related with VPN functionality/Routing Issues
- Troubleshooting of Customer’s issues related with Internet link functionality/Routing
- Issues
- Configuration of Managed CPE
- Plan the migration of ckts (It involves allocation of PE Router & Switch port ensuring minimum downtime.)
- Migration of ckts within stipulated downtime window
- Carrying out throughput test if customer not happy with Throughput/BW.
Associate Network Engineer
CompuCom CSI India
Pune
01.2011 - 10.2011
- Managing WAN / MPLS VPN/ links of various ATT & Non ATT customers
- Configuration of policy based routing at CPE based on BGP attributes & route maps
- To check routing protocols & troubleshooting their peering with neighbours like BGP
- OSPF & EIGRP
- Co-ordination with On-shore team & telco FE to resolve customer’s WAN related issues
- Pro-active monitoring of customer link through Clarify & HP Open View
- Analysis of issues like Telco routing issues or CPE hardware / Hardware issues or any
- Power event at CPE
- Worked with Reliance Communications in Wireline Network team
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Reliance Communications Ltd
Mumbai
07.2008 - 01.2011
- Managment & Troubleshooting of MPLS VPN and to provide technical support and fault management for the WAN connectivity including the troubleshooting of routing protocols like RIP, OSPF and MPLS for L3VPN and point to point Leased line circuit customers
- Resolution of service affecting problems on proactive or reactivate basis for Data as well as Leased lines Circuits
- Troubleshooting Link down, High Latency, Packet drops and Routing issues for customers
- Technical support for the resolution of escalated faults from L-1 and customers
- Working as a shared resource between MSOC and ENOC (Enterprise NOC)
- Performing loop testing for DLC and Transport Equipments
- Coordinating with NOC, Field team and Third party vendors like TULIP, HECL,TATA etc to resolve the Customer issues
- Finding root cause analysis of faults and furnishing the same to the customer
- Performing configuration related changes such as CPE Software version control and upgrades for CPE routers provided by Reliance, Access List Configuration
- Configuration Restoration to new or same CPE etc
- Performing back-ups on all Network elements remotely from the MSOC as per the predefined schedule in case of any
Education
BE - Electronics & Communications
RGPV
BHOPAL 07.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
- Cisco ACI
- AWS
- Azure Cloud
- SD-WAN (Cisco)
- Terraform
- VxLAN
- Cisco Fabric path
- VPC
- IXIA
- MPLS VPN
- BGP
- TCP/IP
Timeline
Senior Network Engineer
Vodafone Intelligent Services
01.2021 - Current
Senior Network Engineer
Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
11.2016 - 11.2020
Network Delivery Manager
Tata Communications Ltd
10.2011 - 11.2016
Associate Network Engineer
CompuCom CSI India
01.2011 - 10.2011
Graduate Engineer Trainee
Reliance Communications Ltd
07.2008 - 01.2011
BE - Electronics & Communications
RGPV
07.2003 - 06.2007
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