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Vijay Saini

Vijay Saini

Ghaziabad

Summary

Accomplished network architect with extensive experience in network and data center server architecture design, development, and deployment. Skilled in telecommunications, network administration, Cisco network devices, and networking with 17 years of experience. Exposed to a multicultural, multi-time zone working environment and worked for key accounts including BHP Billiton UK, Australia, Ooredoo Kuwait, Airtel India, Airtel Africa/Gabon, Vodafone Netherlands, T-Mobile Germany, and Sprint USA. Currently associated with NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd as the manager of network planning and security. Possess in-depth knowledge of network design and strong technical project management abilities. Effective collaborator with design teams and proficient in business development strategies. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager Network/Solution Architect

NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - Current
  • Led network solution design and implementation for enterprise and cloud environments.
  • Managed customer engagements, providing tailored solutions for network optimization.
  • Conducted PoC testing and ensured multi-vendor compatibility.
  • Delivered L3 troubleshooting and supported network migrations/upgrades.

Manager Network/Solution Architect

L&T Smart World Communication
04.2021 - 10.2022
  • Implementation of Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) & Smart Solutions in NDMC Delhi, Moradabad Smart City
  • Responsibilities:
  • Maintain and manage core network infrastructure of NDMC Delhi customers efficiently to ensure high availability, scalability, and security
  • Project management success evaluating, documentation, installing, and supporting all areas of network/infrastructure and insuring appropriate resolution of problems during network outages and periods of reduced performance
  • Configuration and maintenance of Customer Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Wireless Controllers and Access Points
  • Creating SOPs streamlining process to work with better visibility
  • Adding Routers, Switches, WLCs and APs to NMS for central management and monitoring
  • Efficiently handling of team and responsible for delegating work to team members, monitoring team performance through timely feedbacks, thereby, ensuring overall team productivity and quality
  • Configure and Install Network Hardware and Software: Make sure all machines on network communicate with each other properly
  • Responsible for installing and updating network security software and hardware
  • Provide Network/Security L3 support for any Service Problem and Resource Trouble complaint in Smart City Infrastructure Domain
  • Cloud computing DC-DR networking management

Senior Network Analyst

Honeywell
07.2018 - 03.2021
  • Implementation of Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) & Smart Solutions in Dahod City, Ranchi Smart City, Aurangabad Smart City, Bareilly Smart City
  • Working closely with customer in network design workshops to understand customer requirement and their current infrastructure for seamless solution integration
  • Handling customer solution scoping and suggesting inputs for their current network architecture states as per their need to fulfil technical gaps and to optimize network
  • Handling technologies Proof of concept testing as per scoped solution and service compatibility with their existing multi-vendors infrastructure
  • Preparing high level and low-level design document for customers green field network deployment and new technologies transition or deployment into their current infrastructure
  • Provide network solution architecture for Honeywell Interface with customer and network vendors to provide project leadership and oversee network infrastructure design and review for data centre LAN, WAN, and Wireless
  • Providing technically accurate and financially complete solutions for network migrations and enhancements
  • Perform network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose complex network problems
  • Upgrade network/Server hardware and software components as required
  • Project: MP, Surveillance Responsibilities: Network planning, Network Design, and integration for Smart City Projects and working on various business model for building networks
  • Managing DC’s network which includes Cisco, NetApp, Huawei, HP architecture
  • Analyze business requirements to develop technical network solutions and their framework
  • Install hardware such as Routers, Switches, Storage NAS SAN, Servers, VMware, Virtualization
  • Upgrade network hardware and software components as required
  • Solve complex problems with many variables
  • Monitoring, Troubleshooting and managing various network devices (Routers, Core and Edge Switches) to ensure performance and availability
  • IPsec VPN, MPLS, Storage, VMware, ESXi

LEAD NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

FUTURE FOCUS INFOTECH, BHP BILLITON AUSTRALIA
08.2017 - 06.2018
  • Team Lead in Implementing of MPLS Network Devices like Nexus-7K,5k,2k ASR-9K, ASR-1K, 3850, etc
  • Assisting support to Level-1, Level-2, Level-3 engineers for various network kind of issues
  • Managing Overall Core Network and IT infrastructure across board
  • Preparing MOP for SA (Service effecting planned event)
  • Attending Meetings to understand scope of Projects and Purchase required
  • Working with WLAN technologies Cisco LWAPP, CAPWAP, Autonomous AP, WLC
  • Manage Internal and External Datacenter
  • Configuring & troubleshooting L3, L2 Devices like Routers, Switches Firewall
  • LAN / WAN solutions such as MPLS, VPN, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP.
  • Maintained network hardware and software and monitored network to support network availability to end users.
  • Managed and maintained stability of network and wireless services throughout enterprise.

NETWORK SYSTEM SPECIALIST

ARICENT TECHNOLOGIES (H) PVT.LTD
05.2016 - 06.2017
  • Ooredoo Kuwait Huawei (Backbone Network Specialist) ONSITE
  • Customer: Ooredoo Kuwait
  • Involved in client meetings to discuss requirements for project
  • Performed systematic troubleshooting with client for timely resolution
  • Co-ordinate with TAC(Cisco/Juniper/F5) /ISP (Verizon/Century Link) to fix reported issues device down issues
  • Configuration & Troubleshooting of Routing &Switching Protocol and other connectivity related issues
  • Troubleshooting Cases related to ISP MPLS / LDP / BGP
  • Involved various activities like IP RAN ring capacity Expansion/HLD update, IOS version up-gradation
  • Preparing Daily/Weekly/Monthly reports for network and taking part in discussions with customers
  • Day to day activity includes the smooth operation of IP & BO GNOC (24/7) with handling trouble tickets.
  • Configuring and troubleshooting ISP/MPLS, VRF, RT, RD, L2VPN, L3VPN, and TE
  • Handle escalations and special requests of Premium & Priority Proactive customers related to aspects like performance, quality, and improvements.
  • Monitored network hardware operations to evaluate proper configuration
  • Designed and evaluated WAN and LAN connectivity technologies

ISG TO SRX FW SWAP (DEC’15 TO MARCH’16 GABON

Ericsson
06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Successfully designed and deployed high availability network for Data services replacing existing Juniper M10i routers, Extreme Networks Summit switches, and ISG Firewall with Juniper SRX 3400 Clusters, Extreme Black Diamond Switches, and Smart edge 1200 routers. This project helps vendors in catering to high telecom data volume in future and resolve network choking and low-speed experience to customers. This project leads to increase in end-user satisfaction and new telecom customers were added with 60% growth.
  • Successfully co-design and implemented TIC solution for Data Caching in Airtel RSSA by designing Backbone connection for same.
  • Checked configuration files and logs to uncover root causes of problems

NETWORK ENGINEER

ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICES PVT. LTD
12.2011 - 05.2016
  • CUSTOMER: AIRTEL GHANA/NIGERIA/GABON (ONSITE)
  • Planning and designing for IP Mobile Packet Backbone Network
  • Prepare/Validate Design HLD, DLD, and mops for different operators as per requirement
  • Responsible for incident and change management of network issues
  • Configure, monitor, and trouble-shoot National IP/MPLS backbone network
  • Implementation of Policy and Routing configuration of Cisco Routers for MBPN networks
  • Issue Network Planning Letter for Capacity Addition for Router/Switches
  • Configure VLANs, NSRP & VRRP, HSRP protocols, ports on routers & switches
  • Network connectivity troubleshooting, ping, trace, telnet.
  • Created VPN infrastructure and allowed for secure remote connections.
  • Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions

D&I – IP INFRASTRUCTURE AND SECURITY

Ericsson
10.2013 - 10.2014
  • Preparing and implementing configurations for router, switches, FWs for VF Network.
  • Troubleshooting of IP, TCP, PPP, HTTP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS & VPN, STP, VRRP, VLAN, Stacking, Cascading Trucking. Implementing new Design, Configuration during Non-Service Affecting window for Vodafone During night activity.
  • Troubleshooting routing connectivity for Vodafone NL which involves OSPF/VRF configuration.
  • Preparing routing configuration for traffic migration which includes static routing, route-map
  • Migration and adding networks to OSPF, changing import/export on VRF.
  • Adding new blades to security GTWs after testing in test lab.
  • Adding FW rules to provide access to several Networks and Zones on Check Point and Juniper.

IP NETWORK ENGINEER L3

Albion Infotel
10.2006 - 12.2011
  • Supporting entire Albion LAN/WAN infrastructure.
  • Managing and fetching bandwidth utilization reports through Net-flow and NETQOS tool.
  • Doing mass configuration and network device backup/restore.
  • Shaping/managing internet traffic through Bluecoat Packet shaper tool.
  • Managing MPLS/IPSEC tunnel WAN link.
  • Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues
  • Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis

Education

MBA - Information Technology Project Management

Swami Vivekananda Subharti University

Bachelor’s - Engineering – Electronics & Communications

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Skills

  • Cisco 3750,3850,4500,6500 Nexus Series7K,5K,2k
  • Firewalls: Routed, Transparent, Single, Multiple contexts, Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper SRX/Net screen, Fortinet
  • Routing Protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, LDP, Static, Route redistribution
  • Routers: Cisco,Juniper,Dell,Tejas
  • Spanning-tree (STP, PVST, RSTP, MST), CDP, VLANs, DTP, VTP, EtherChannel,Manual, PAgP, LACP, Layer-2 Security
  • Miscellaneous Technologies: HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, Multicast, NAT/PAT, IPsec, IP ACLs, NTP, DHCP, DNS, VPC, VDC, AWS, UCS, Storage NAS, SAN, QoS
  • Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS, JUNOS, Windows Server, Linux, VMware Esxi, F5 Load Balancer, Array
  • Ticketing & Monitoring Tool: Huawei U2000, Net Boss and Service Now CMDB, HP NNMi
  • Smart City Elements – Smart City Network catering services of Smart Lights, Environmental Sensors, Variable Messaging Displays, Wi-Fi, Automatic Number Plate detection, Red Light Violation Detection, Adaptive Traffic Control, Solid Waste Management, Disaster Management
  • Project manager supervision

Certification

  • • ENCORE (Cisco Enterprise Network Core)

  • • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Data Center Written

  • • Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Core

  • • CCNP R & S

  • • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service

  • • CCNA R & S

  • • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

Manager Network/Solution Architect

NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd
10.2022 - Current

Manager Network/Solution Architect

L&T Smart World Communication
04.2021 - 10.2022

Senior Network Analyst

Honeywell
07.2018 - 03.2021

LEAD NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

FUTURE FOCUS INFOTECH, BHP BILLITON AUSTRALIA
08.2017 - 06.2018

ISG TO SRX FW SWAP (DEC’15 TO MARCH’16 GABON

Ericsson
06.2016 - 08.2016

NETWORK SYSTEM SPECIALIST

ARICENT TECHNOLOGIES (H) PVT.LTD
05.2016 - 06.2017

D&I – IP INFRASTRUCTURE AND SECURITY

Ericsson
10.2013 - 10.2014

NETWORK ENGINEER

ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICES PVT. LTD
12.2011 - 05.2016

IP NETWORK ENGINEER L3

Albion Infotel
10.2006 - 12.2011

Bachelor’s - Engineering – Electronics & Communications

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

MBA - Information Technology Project Management

Swami Vivekananda Subharti University

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