
Abhishek Singh
Senior Network design Engineer/Network consultant#CCNP#CCDP#Devnet#JNCIA#PaloAlto#Python
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Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
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SUMMARY: Having a total relevant experience around 15 years in building network structure with manageable Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Palo Alto, Nokia & Huawei. Maintaining customer migration,Network Automation, Network Improvement, Network Architect, Network Operation, router turn up test & thereby providing support to field data engineer about the Cisco hardware related faults and provide the analysis, procedure for isolate and/or resolve the fault & co-ordinate this activity. CERTIFICATION: • CCNA (CSCO12018532) • CCNP •CCDP •JNCIA .Devnet .Python TECHNICAL SKILLS: • Good understanding of ISP Operations and its Routing policies, Internet Architecture, Services rolled out in an ISP. • Understanding of OSI, TCP/IP model. • Knowledge of Transport networks and WAN troubleshooting. • Knowledge of Network and Routing Protocols, Network Management Tools. • Knowledge of firewall and WLC. • Experience of migration & Router Turn UP test activity. • Hands on troubleshooting experience over BGP, OSPF and MPLS VPN. • Hands on experience on services L3VPN, L2 VPN and VPLS. • Knowledge of Administration and Troubleshooting. Network administration (TCP /IP), installation, configuration and maintenance of Cisco/juniper routers and switches. • Knowledge of Switching like VLANS, STP Protocol etc. • Basic Knowledge of Linux /shell .
Work experience
Senior Network Design Engineer
EDF
May 2025 - Present
1 year 6 months
Network Engineer
G42
Aug 2021 - May 2025
3 years 10 months
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
• Monitor, Maintain & Troubleshoot complete network of G42 • Responsible for interacting with internal groups, vendors and customers to coordinate the timely implementation of customer networks and data services. • Responsible for configuration, troubleshooting and change request on Palo-Alto FW. • Providing support for Network automation(RestAPI, Restconf , Netconf, python) project. • Resolving escalated cases and mentoring FM team to resolve maximum cases at initial level. • Providing P and PE support for Backbone network for any manual configuration changes required on P or PE router and doing failover test.
IP-Traffic specialist
Vodafone Fiji
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
2 years 7 months
Lami, Fiji
Responsibilities: Responsible for Backbone design, new implementation in networks and Traffic engineering in MPLS and MPBN network. Design Discussion. Streamlining Services, Delivery Plan, and Implementation for data services and customer for smooth installation/migration activity. Troubleshooting on escalated backbone network related issue on routing, switching, MBGP, MPLS & MPBN network. Providing L3 support for any manual configuration changes and failover test in network. Troubleshoot issues related to vendors like (CISCO,ZTE&Juniper) · Monitoring and rerouting backbone and peering traffic during congestion and as when necessary. To handle emergencies activity, critical major problems, coordinate with Vendor TAC and investigate faults/cause related to system/network problems. Take necessary actions to optimize, network Improvement, service availability, quality & performance. Acceptance test for Vodafone IP/MPLS service and devices. Responsible for providing technical & process training to new team members.
Senior Network Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Dec 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 1 month
Pune Area, India
• Design, Maintain & Troubleshoot complete enterprise network of orange Belgium business services. • Responsible for interacting with internal groups, orange shop & vendors to coordinate the timely implementation of customer networks , data and application services. • Resolving escalated cases and mentoring SOC team to resolve maximum cases at initial level. • Design Discussion in CAB meeting , Streamlining Services & Delivery Plan for new datacenter Sites/applications. • Preparing configuration & executing change request of new/existing Customer for smooth installation/migration activity. • Preparing configuration and executing Change request for DNS update for authoritative and recursive zone. • Responsible for DNS changes Request and Troubleshoot on Private and Public DNS configuration. • Providing Support for DNS ,Wi-Fi and MPLS VPN services. • Take necessary actions to improve network and service availability, quality & performance.
Network Specialist
Aricent
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
10 months
Pune Area, India
Role : TAC & NOC operation Responsibilities: • Diagnose and correlate network problem, identify root causes and develop and implement remediation strategies • Resolving escalated cases and mentoring FM team to resolve maximum cases at initial level • Proactively identify area of defects and resolving issues through planned outage. • Resolving and tracking all case are within SLA and escalating to different stakeholders involved. • Monitoring and rerouting backbone and peering traffic during congestion and as when necessary.
Excutive IP NOC
Vodafone India
Apr 2013 - Dec 2015
2 years 9 months
Pune Area, India
Role : TAC & NOC operation for Vodafone IP MPLS operation Responsibilities: • Diagnose and correlate network problem, identify root causes and develop and implement remediation strategies • Resolving escalated cases and mentoring FM team to resolve maximum cases at initial level • Hardware related troubleshooting on Juniper MX960, MX480, M320, EX4200 & Cisco 7600 and escalating cases to vendor for RCA • Proactively identify area of defects and resolving issues through planned outage. • Resolving and tracking all case are within SLA and escalating to different stakeholders involved. • JUNOS up-gradation of MX960, MX480 & M320 across PAN India • Monitoring and rerouting backbone and peering traffic during congestion and as when necessary. • Acceptance test for Vodafone IP/MPLS service and devices
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Feb 2012 - May 2013
1 year 4 months
Project : British telecom (Infonet CE configuration and Migration) Role : Network configuration, Customer migration and Router Turn up test support, Certified for configuration. Responsibilities • Working for British Telecom as Network configuration engineer PE- CE- HVPN- DSL configuration. • Providing PE and CE support for IVS network for any manual configuration changes required on PE or CE router. • Configuring interconnect gateway for IVS to Encore to BT MPLS network and also supporting interconnect migration activity for IVS to Encore to BT MPLS network. • Providing CE support for BT MPLS Network for RTT and migration. • Migrating customer from BT infonet network to BT MPLS Network and verify all services with customer. • Guiding Field engineer to carry out Planned Event. • Provisioning/Amending of new/existing order raised by order managers. • Understanding customer requirements and its validation. • Co-ordination with order manager for validation of order/service details. • Building and deploying PE-CE router configuration, Test & turn-up, logical Amend activity as order/service requirements. • Troubleshooting and rectifying PE-CE issue occurred till the order is ready for service. • Hands on configuration experience over BGP and routing. • Working with various tools for ensuring end to end Process is followed till the order is handover to operation team.
Executive IP TAC
Tata Communications
Oct 2010 - Mar 2012
1 year 6 months
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Remote troubleshooting of Data Network of Tata Communications Ltd all over India and international locations and all the mentioned services hosted on the network. Troubleshooting escalated network and service related faults like packet loss, latency and throughput issues from different teams like SOC, IP NOC, Field teams etc. Providing support to field data engineer about the Cisco hardware related faults and provide the analysis, procedure to isolate and/or resolve the fault & co-ordinate this activity. Image and IOS up gradation to new software releases of Cisco Routers and Switches. Taking up the network related issues and hardware / software issues of router / switch with Vendor (Cisco). Working on issues with Cisco TAC and tracking it till the resolution of issue. Escalations to Senior team in case of Major issue and n/w failure. Coordinating regional teams to carry out activities like Cisco Router / Switch IOS Up-gradation (72XX, 76XX&12XXX (GSR) series routers, 2950, 3750&6513 Switches), Installing Router parts' like different line cards, router chassis etc. Taking up the network related issues and hardware / software issues of router / switch with Vendor (Wipro, IBM). Working on issues with JTAC and tracking it till the resolution of issue. Coordinating regional teams to carry out activities like Juniper Router / Switch IOS Up-gradation (MX series routers, EX series Switches), Installing Router parts' like different line cards, router chassis etc. Guiding Field engineer to carry out Planned Event. Coordinating with Regional Team to raise Planned Event and carry out activities for PE (planned Events); Router crash/rebooting or any activity for hardware changes in router at site.
Education
University of Mumbai
BE, Electronics Engineering
LT College of Engineering , Navi Mumbai
Licenses & certifications
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Issued: Jan 2026
Cisco SD-WAN
Issued: May 2023