Waqar Azeem

Experience

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  Ericsson

  Jan 2012 - Feb 2013

  • IP/Tx Engineer

    May 2012 - Feb 2013

  • Service Engineer Intern

    Jan 2012 - May 2012
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  Nokia

  Feb 2013 - May 2014

  IP Engineer
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  May 2014 - Aug 2015

  Network Implementation Engineer

  -Conducted feasibility study of overall business requirements, in turn lead overall design and development of enterprise network for various customer and industries-Develop High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD) & Detailed Technical specification (DTS) documents.-Prepare and support in User Acceptance Test (UAT), System Integration Tests, stress testing at project handover phase.Key projects:MOI-CF Riyadh ProjectHP network infrastructure which is the new implementation of HP network devices on Core, Distribution & Access layers.Also the setup has the security infrastructure which consists of HP products & 3rd party products.MOH Southern and Western Region Hospital Project HP Network infrastructure in Hospital.MOH LAN Network in AL-MADDAH, and AL-KHABASH Hospital which is classified by MOH as Tele-Non Critical Hospital.SIBCOHP Network infrastructure in SIBCO (considered as one of the biggest Pespsi Plant in Middle East), built two redundant data centre comprised of HP network devices. Show less

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  Cisco

  Aug 2015 - now

  Responsible for data center operations management through comprehensive monitoring and supporting of data center technologies, inclusive of the of customer network, storage, virtualization, and operating systems. Troubleshooting of network issues through identification and mitigation of root-causes, via end-to-end packet path reverse-engineering through each protocols and technologies involved.Day-to day operations task include of customer complaint handling, inter-function coordination, troubleshooting and reporting statistics, key risks and progress to the management. Following are the key technologies and/or protocols involved in my day-to-day operations:SDN-ACI:-ACI fabric initial discovery-ACI object workflow-REST API , MIT (RN and DN)-Moquery (Detailed troubleshooting using moquery CLI)-Visore (GUI based troubleshooting)-Python (ACI ToolKit)-Endpoint, EPG and BD and VRF associations-Microsegmentation-Contracts (Taboo,Standard,Interface)-Route Leaking-EPG Extension-L2Out (BD Extension)-L3Outs (VRF-Lite) -Static Routing -EIGRP -OSPF -BGP-Service Graph, PBR-Transit Routing-Single POD, Multi-PODLegacy Technologies:-Switching: VLANS, SVI, Trunking, Port-Channels, VTP, STP [CSTP,PVST+,Rapid-STP,MSTP], Inter-VLAN -routing, Stacking, VSS.-Gateway Redundancy: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.-Various Features: NAT, SNMP, NTP, DHCP [Server, Relay Agent, Snooping].-Routing: OSPF, ISIS, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static, Floating Static routing-Datacenter: FEX, vPC, VDC, vPC+, Fabric Path, VXLAN. Show less

  • Senior DC Operations Engineer

    Mar 2017 - now

  • IP/MPLS Operations Engineer

    Aug 2015 - Mar 2017