Vivek Joshi
Pune
Summary
Analytical professional with technical knowledge and critical thinking skills to thrive in data-driven environments. Tackles challenges with positivity and drive to overcome. Works great alone or with others and consistently exceeds expectations.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Specialist – Network deployment and automation
Ciena Communications
06.2021 - 02.2025
- Company Overview: Ciena is a networking systems, services, and software company
- Ciena is driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation—enabling customers to adapt within ever-changing environments to deliver richer, more connected experiences for their business and users
- Working as a Specialist and technical manager in Network planning and technology Department delivering project roll outs in Core DWDM and Data Centre network of Vodafone Idea India
- Closely working with network team to prepare and implement the automated solution in the network
- Experience in managing Ansible playbooks with Ansible roles, variables, inventory files
- Performing configuration management for application installation using Ansible tool
- Experience in virtualization using VMware ESXI, vCentre, vSphere
- DCN solution preparation to deploy the management network for optics devices
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance of multi-vendor EMS/NMS HA/DR Redundancy, Alarms, Temip Alarms, Device Backup, syslogs, MyCom PM Data in Vi PAN India Network
- Creating EMS Automation Bash Scripts for Disk Utilization with Email Alerts, EMS Backup Status reports with Email Alerts, CRC Error Reports with Email Alerts, and EMS Health Checkup Scripts with Email Alerts, thereby reducing manual tasks and improving resource utilization
- Solely responsible for implementation of Baseline Assessment (BA), Vulnerability Assessment (VA), Middle ware Assessment (MA), Weak Authentication (WA) in all EMS/NMS servers & Nodes to make them compliant as per IT General Controls (TGC) & DOT Guidelines with co-ordination with Vi security team
- Defined centralized functional model to enhance the project implementation work from one location to handle green field and brown field migration related activities from NOC
- Handling and managing server installations and migrations
- Familiar and experienced with AWS Cloud platform and its features, which includes EC2, Elastic beanstalk, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Auto Scaling
- Managing team responsible for traffic migration of other vendor’s (ECI/Turin/Huawei) equipment to Ciena equipment of Vodafone India and new node integration in OSS network along with completion of handover process to NOC
- MOP creation and tracking the execution for successful implementation of activities such as insertion, OLA to FOADM conversion, ILA to ROADM conversion
- Knowledge and experience in network planning, design and operations
- Responsible to provide solutions required during issues that arise during network roll out and challenged faced after traffic migration
- Responsible for successful Implementation of MCP server deployment project which is the network management system for Ciena optics and Packet device like 6500, Waveserver, Waveserver Ai 5144, 3928
- Deploying MCP cloud based servers as a transformation of On-Prem servers to virtualization in VIL network
- Experience with working with REST APIs
- Establish and maintain standards, policies, documentation, and logs for networking and monitoring systems
- Responsible for enhancing team’s technical expertise by delivering classroom trainings and online trainings to internal team and subcontractors
- Involved in traffic roll out project
- Ciena is a networking systems, services, and software company
- Ciena is driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation—enabling customers to adapt within ever-changing environments to deliver richer, more connected experiences for their business and users
Manager- Networks and planning department
Huawei Telecommunications
02.2014 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider
- Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration
- Huawei has established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services
- Its ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population
- With 180,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information society, and building a Better Connected World
- Working as a Manager and an SME in Network planning and technology Department delivering project roll outs in Access/DWDM network of Vodafone India
- Defined centralized functional model to enhance the project implementation work from one location to handle migration related activities from NOC
- Managing team responsible for traffic migration of other vendor’s (ECI/Turin) equipment to Huawei equipment of Vodafone India and new Node integration in network along with completion of handover process to NOC team
- Knowledge and experience in network design and operations
- Responsible to provide solutions required during issues that arise during network roll out and challenged faced after traffic migration
- Responsible for successful Implementation of server consolidation project that consolidated individual circle’s NMS servers into one Server and helped team to work on single zonal server in co-ordination with team members at same location
- Deploying Network Cloud Engine(NCE) cloud based servers as a transformation of On-Prem servers to cloud management in VIL network
- Experience with working with REST APIs
- Establish and maintain standards, policies, documentation, and logs for networking and monitoring systems
- Responsible for enhancing team’s technical expertise by delivering classroom trainings and online trainings to internal team and subcontractors
- Involved in traffic roll out project
- Creating EMS Automation Bash Scripts for Disk Utilization with Email Alerts, EMS Backup Status reports with Email Alerts, CRC Error Reports with Email Alerts, and EMS Health Checkup Scripts with Email Alerts, thereby reducing manual tasks and improving resource utilization
- Solely responsible for implementation of Baseline Assessment (BA), Vulnerability Assessment (VA), Middle ware Assessment (MA), Weak Authentication (WA) in all EMS/NMS servers & Nodes to make them compliant as per IT General Controls (TGC) & DOT Guidelines with co-ordination with Vi security team
- Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider
- Driven by a commitment to sound operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration
- Huawei has established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud technology and services
- Its ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population
- With 180,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information society, and building a Better Connected World
Senior Engineer- TAC lead
Wipro InfoTech Limited
11.2011 - 02.2014
- Company Overview: Wipro Ltd., the flagship company of the Azim H Premji group was incorporated in the year 1945
- Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally
- Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange, among others
- Designing and configuring of services on numerous technologies like SDH, Ethernet, OTN & WDM using automated process
- MOP creation and development of plans for events such as DWDM/ECI Node shifting, Traffic optimization, traffic migration, management shifting and link up gradation and execute them using automation tool
- Developing script using python to automate repeated task to improve overall efficiency
- Responsible for customer’s implementations of advanced network knowledge (VPLS/EVPN, VxLAN) and support
- Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle including design, development and creating test cases
- Good understanding of modern network and system security concepts
- Experience of automation tools such as Ansible and YANG
- Planning and execution of Planned Events
- Providing SIP (Service Improvement Plan) for repetitive faults
- Monitoring the effectiveness of the Incident Management process and making recommendations for improvement
- Providing Known Error for the reference of team
- Wipro Ltd., the flagship company of the Azim H Premji group was incorporated in the year 1945
- Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services Company globally
- Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange, among others
Technical Support Engineer Tier-2 (Technical Assistance Centre Division)
ECI Telecom India
Mumbai
03.2008 - 10.2011
- Company Overview: ECI Telecom is a global provider of advanced telecommunications solutions to leading carriers and service providers
- ECI has pioneered key technologies including voice compression, SDH, DSL and has enabled the establishment of global network
- Joined as Technical support Engineer Tier2 for Installation, commissioning of SDH and Data Equipments
- Worked as DCN and Network planning engineer
- Currently working as Technical support Engineer for remote support of SDH and Data Equipments and its NMS to implement the transmission network
- Managing Incident and problem related meeting
- Preparing reports required by the client and companies senior management for both the projects
- Co-ordination with Client team
- Providing support to the customer like BHARTI, HUTCH, TTSL for all the planned & unplanned activities
- TAC 2 Support includes, problems in MUX malfunction, Analysis Problem related to link down (PDH level, Ethernet, Optical path, DWDM problem)
- Error Analysis in Optical Path, Overhead or Pay Load
- Working on NMS servers & Clients Hardware based on Sun Solaris operating system
- Working and interacting extensively with the customer, so as to understand their needs and give the appropriate feedback to the development team for product and feature enhancements
- Includes customer satisfaction and technical help in network design w.r.t
- XDM & BG Family equipment
- Handling escalation from customer for problem reported
- Good working knowledge on UNIX
- Good knowledge of Data Communication
- Good knowledge of TDAX Equipment & DWDM equipment
- ECI Telecom is a global provider of advanced telecommunications solutions to leading carriers and service providers
- ECI has pioneered key technologies including voice compression, SDH, DSL and has enabled the establishment of global network
Executive – Network, NOC
VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.)
02.2007 - 03.2008
- Company Overview: VSNL, the first telecom service provider in the world to get the prestigious TL 9000 certification, is India's leading provider of International Telecommunications and Internet Services & VSNL International promotes communications solutions to the global carrier and enterprise markets by leveraging its extensive undersea and NLD network capabilities in India and around the globe
- Bandwidth/Ckt
- Provisioning of IPLC ckts at STM-16/STM-4/STM-1/ DS-3/E1/64 Kb/T1/T3/OC 3/OC-12/OC-48 levels over the International backbone network
- Monitor & Diagnose the alarms and performance of ECI XDM systems and international bandwidth extended through these systems
- Troubleshooting with International Carriers i.e
- Level3, AT&T, Verizon, C&W, BT, ANC, COLT, FT, Verizon, Bell, Wiltel, NTL, Fiber net, Looking Glass, Telia, KPN, Telstra, Telecom Italia etc to meet various requirements & diagnose the fault occurring in the network
- Managing internal supports / service partners / vendors to resolve circuit/network faults according to agreed Local Work Instructions & handle fault reporting, fault isolation and escalation in accordance to Global Processes
- Working in CNMS (Central Network Management System) team, which handles the Inventory Database management which is based on OSS tool Cramer (Version5)
- Handling Resource Manager, Maintaining Database of Traffic links of various services (such as ILD, NLD, Ethernet links, Point-to-Point, ILL etc)
- Upgrading the existing database with the new changes and Creating Network Topology with the help of Crammer tool
- VSNL, the first telecom service provider in the world to get the prestigious TL 9000 certification, is India's leading provider of International Telecommunications and Internet Services & VSNL International promotes communications solutions to the global carrier and enterprise markets by leveraging its extensive undersea and NLD network capabilities in India and around the globe
Education
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication
Atharva College of Engineering
Mumbai01.2005
HSC -
01.2001
SSC -
01.1999
Skills
- Network deployment
- Automation scripting
- Configuration management
- Cloud services
- Traffic migration
- Network planning
- REST APIs
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect, fe56c81e12f843bc84087498a5ace9e7, 03/2025
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator, https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=250-023-355, 03/2025
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, 49b090d3df134ba8b37978789d23d406, 03/2024
- Cisco CCNA
- NCE (Network cloud engine)
- Python language course
- CCNP ENCOR
- NSE1, NSE2, NSE3
Accomplishments
- Best employee technical support, 2012, Wipro Infotech Ltd.
- Technical Star Award, 2014, Huawei
- Future Star Award, 2015, Huawei
- Outstanding Performer Award, 2015, Huawei
- Best employee for 200G project rollout, Vodafone Ltd. by Huawei
- Future Star Award, 2019, Huawei
- Spot Award, Ciena
- Successful completion of Vi NLD express layer project, 2023-2024, Ciena
Languages
- English
- Marathi
- Hindi
- Gujarati
Hobbies and Interests
- Listening to Music
- Sports (Table Tennis)
- Traveling and Observation
- Singing
- Playing
Software Technologies
MySQL, MongoDB, Linux/Unix server integration, BASH/Shell scripting, Docker, Ansible, Python automation, AWS Cloud architecture, Load balancers, Cloud security, Git-Github, Containerization of application, OTN, DWDM, Packet, Carrier Ethernet, EMS/NMS, IP-MPLS protocols OSPF, BGP, ISIS, OSS tools
Personal Information
- Passport Number: N4965535
- Date of Birth: 12/15/83
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Specialist – Network deployment and automation
Ciena Communications
06.2021 - 02.2025
Manager- Networks and planning department
Huawei Telecommunications
02.2014 - 06.2021
Senior Engineer- TAC lead
Wipro InfoTech Limited
11.2011 - 02.2014
Technical Support Engineer Tier-2 (Technical Assistance Centre Division)
ECI Telecom India
03.2008 - 10.2011
Executive – Network, NOC
VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.)
02.2007 - 03.2008
B.E. - Electronics & Telecommunication
Atharva College of Engineering
HSC -
SSC -
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