Sohaib Anwar

s/o Muhammad Inam Ul Haq

House # 28, LA, Jinnah Gardens Islamabad
Cell Phone: +92-321-5445152
E-mail: sohaibanwar@yahoo.com

~ Objective ~

I am a highly accomplished, dedicated, and disciplined technical professional, seeking to

contribute and grow with a dynamic and innovative organization. I bring with me 9+
years of experience in Telco Industry that helped me to perform well under pressure
and gained excellent leadership and problem-solving skills.

~ Certifications ~

Nuage Networks Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) Fundamentals 1133994671

Nuage Networks Virtualized Cloud Services (VCS) Operations 84912852
Nokia IP Networks and Services Fundamentals 315980436
Nokia Network Border Gateway Protocol for Internet Routing 895659647
Nokia Border Gateway Protocol fundamental for services 778181033
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) CSCO12992511
Redhad RHCSA Training
Fortinet NSE 3 Network Security Associate
Juniper Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIS-ENT)
Juniper Network certified associate (JNCIA-Junos)
~ Professional Experience ~

Employed at Nokia Solution Networks. (July 2018- Currently Working)

Designation: CARE Technical Customer Advocate (Feb 2023 – Cont.)
Responsibilities
(Jan 2024 – Cont.)
• Deployment of Netguard Endpoint Detection and Response solution in customers data
center (Claro Colombia and Comcast).
• Security audit of multivendor router and switches for LG U+ in South Korea.
• Co-ordination with the delivery teams for the Handover of the products to care team.

(Feb 2023 – Dec-2023)

• Responsible to support complete end to end includes latest software installation, bug
identification, MOP creation, configurational issues, product lifecycle, technical issues,
applicability of Release notes in network setup, new release dry run-on testbed.
• Providing technical support to issues faced by operations and delivery teams for Nokia
CloudBand products (CBIS, CBAM, and CBND).
• Troubleshooting issues related to computes, storage, and networking on the NFVi layer
(ETSI) of the CloudBand product.
 • SME for Redhat Openstack, Nokia CloudBand Application Manager (VNFM), and Nokia
CloudBand Network Director (NFVO) for Managed Services team.
• Managing products: Juniper FW SRX1400, 5400 & 5800, F5 Big IP LTM VE, Cubro Packet
Master, Nokia Nuage Networks (AVRS, SRIOV, VSC, VSD, 210 WBX, vSR), Tapping
solutions and RedHat in 3 x Data Centers (Islamabad/Karachi/Lahore).
• Worked side by side with Project/Design Team and MS team for related tasks in the
production environment.
• Responsible to brief customer in weekly meeting regarding all the current ongoing
issues as well as actions on future enhancements
• Providing detailed documentation and explaining them to customer for any critical issue
and close the case within SLA to improve internal team KPI’s.

Designation: Team Lead MS Cloud Core Ops (Nov 2021 – Jan 2023)
Responsibilities

• Managing the nationwide RedHat Openstack cloud platform for virtualized Telco
core
• Responsible for cold/live VMs migration, host migration and evacuation
• Coordination with TAC on different issues of Nuage SDN nodes, Leaf/BL/Spine switches
and OVS/AVRS/SRIOV computes.
• Responsible for compute replacement, Scale-in/out operations and cluster health
• Managing the Scale-In/Out Ops for computes and storage in case of HW failure
• Coordination with the project team for handover of newly commissioned racks.
• Formation of monthly availability report for customer.
• Coordination with customer to carry out critical activities in the network.
• Raising network anomalies with planning teams for the resolution.
• Coordination with PS/CS TLs for troubleshooting and implementation of network
changes.
• Operations and Maintenance of Juniper SRX1400, SRX5400, SRX5800 and Fortinet
Firewalls.

Designation: Cloud IP/Nuage RTV18 Engineer (Feb 2020 – Oct 2021)

Responsibilities

• Operations and maintenance of Border leafs, Fabric Spines, POD spines and Compute
leafs.
• Performing upgrades of CloudBand and Nuage components on the NFVi layer.
• Management of Nuage VSD, VSC and VRSs deployed in the network.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting.
• KPIs benchmarking on daily basis.
• Configurations (BGP/BFD) and management of SRIOV Compute leafs.
• Coordination with TAC on different issues of Nuage SDN nodes, Leaf/BL/Spine switches
and OVS/AVRS/SRIOV computes.
• Health check of nodes installed in the network using scripts.
• Implementation/configuration of policies on Juniper SRX 5800/SRX5400/SRX1400
firewalls.
 • Developing scripts for periodic checkpointing and backup of important data, to avoid
any unforeseen failure.
• Monitoring Daily KPIs of Network and highlight any issues to Planning teams.
• Highlighting design risks in network to avoid any outage.

Designation: IP Core and Security SLM Engineer (July 2018- Jan 2020)
Responsibilities:

• Ensure SLA and KPI compliance as per contract.

• Operations and maintenance of nationwide 2G/3G/4G network for Telenor Pakistan.
• O&M of Telenor Pakistan IP Core nodes.
• Integration of Cloud RAN Network, Nokia ASBSCs, Nokia ASRNCEs with legacy IP Core.
• Integration and Implementation of any new services in IP Core.
• Integration of Nuage network / vMME /vGW and vMSS with legacy IP Core Network.
• Integration of Google Cache GGC Server-Dell-R740 and Facebook CDN servers in live
network.
• Co-ordination with project team for ATP and handover of new devices.
• Version upgrade of M6000-18S router, 5952E switches and 8905E Switch.
• Working on ZTE M6000, M6000-8S, M6000-18S, M6000-8S plus, T8000-16 and T8000-18
routers, Huawei E8000-X, Hilstone Firewalls, ZTE 8900E and ZTE 5900E Switches.

Employed at Hussain Tanveer Associates (HTA) (June 2017-June 2018)

Designation: IP Engineer (Telenor MS)
Responsibilities:

• Managing all network activities to ensure successful execution of new service integration,
swap projects & coordinating project integration activities for new services rollout.
• Telenor IP CORE network Managed Services operations: Trouble shooting network issues,
impact analysis and co-coordinating with customers and internal departments to resolve
any Network performance issues.
• Troubleshooting for PS-CORE /EPC issues during integration with IP-CORE for Telenor 4G
services.
• Responsible for Integration of new MSS/MGW/STP/SGSN/GGSN and BSC/RNC with
IP/MPLS Network.
• Operations and Management of the IP nodes involving ZTE Routers T8000, M6000,
Switches 8900, 5900E and Hilstone Firewalls.

Technical Support Expert June 2014 – May 2017

The Professional Communications (PVT) Ltd. Islamabad Pakistan
Responsibilities
• 24x7 monitoring & surveillance, event & incident management along with initial analysis
and diagnosis of reported issues for Dual Play (Video and Internet) services.
• Operation and Maintenance of Cisco 7609 router Cisco 9000 router and Cisco 6509
core switch
• Monitoring of alarms and resolution of trouble tickets.
• Installation and configuration of C-Data Tech and ZTE Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and
 Optical Network Unit (ONU).
• Commissioning of broadband internet service, IPTV and VOD using GEPON as access layer
technology and FTTH, FTTB and FTTC topologies.
• Installation and configuration of Video-On-Demand Server.
• Monitoring network traffic and performance whilst maintaining high levels of
customer satisfaction by providing services fully compliant with the SLA and minimizing
the impact on customer service.

Services Engineer April 2013 – May 2014

The Professional Communications (PVT) Ltd. Islamabad Pakistan
Responsibilities

• Testing and Installation of CATV Transmitters and CATV Receivers.

• Troubleshooting of FTTH (Fiber to the home) and HFC (Hybrid fiber coaxial) networks.
• Performing quick resolution calls to restore any service or potential impact to TPC and
its customers through unplanned or planned work.
• Coordinating with Other departments/teams which includes, Incident & Problem
management, Service desks, Configuration etc. to get information about the planned
and unplanned outages and update the cases with their feedback.

Awards (Professional Career)

• Employee of the year award (2015)
• Appreciation certificate from Pakistan Navy (Naval Complex Islamabad).
• Appreciation certificate from National Defense University.
• Twice received appreciation certificates for my work in setting up the POP’s.
• I was awarded with best employee trophy (2014) in company’s annual meeting.

~ Education ~
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Bachelor, Telecommunication
Engineering 2012

~ References ~

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