Achref Ben Salem

Achref Ben Salem

📍 Paris, France

With six years of experience, Achref specializes in routing, switching, and network security, supported by advanced certifications across Cisco, Huawei, Fortinet and Juniper technologies.

SENIOR NETWORK INTEGRATION ENGINEER

Orange Business · Massy, France

AUG 2024 · ONGOING
  • Providing consulting, engineering and network solution integration services, including migrations and deliverable writing, as well as documentation preparation and client training, with expertise in Huawei, Cisco and Aruba technologies.
Consulting Huawei iMaster Campus

NETWORK OPERATIONS ENGINEER

Capgemini · Bordeaux, France

NOV 2023 · JUN 2024
  • Monitor an assurance network and provide technical support using EasyVista, ServicePilot, Aruba AirWave, and F5.
  • Manage morning and evening monitoring shifts to keep network stability and performance.
Monitoring F5 Aruba ServicePilot

HUAWEI TRAINER (FREELANCE)

Prologic Tunisia · Tunisia

OCT 2023
  • Deliver training on Huawei Cloud Campus SDN solutions using iMaster NCE Campus and Data Center.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into practical, actionable content for client engineers.
Huawei Cloud Campus iMaster NCE

NETWORK ENGINEERING CONSULTANT (FREELANCE)

Libyan Spider · Tripoli, Libya

OCT 2023 – DEC 2023
  • Design, configure, and document LLD network infrastructure for Libyan Spider’s data‑center project.
  • Provide knowledge transfer and post‑implementation support to ensure network stability.
LLD Data Center Consulting

DATACOM ENGINEER (EBG TD & IP TL)

Huawei Enterprise Northern Africa · Southern Mediterranean

NOV 2021 – OCT 2023
  • Design, evaluate, and adjust LLD solutions to meet customer requirements and ensure end‑to‑end delivery.
  • Prepare LLDs and commissioning for Safe Port and e‑Gov projects across switching, routing, Wi‑Fi, servers, CCTV, MW/RTN and NE/USG series.
  • Define installation, configuration and upgrade procedures for IP products and features.
  • Implement inter‑DC connectivity using USG firewalls, security policies, NAT and IPSec tunnels.
  • Design LAN/WAN networks using VLANs, OSPF, VRF, BGP, BFD and POC labs to validate designs.
Safe Port e‑Gov USG BGP OSPF

CHANNEL SERVICE ENGINEER

Huawei Tunisia · Tunisia

FEB 2020 – OCT 2023
  • Manage technical issues during deployments and maintenance with partners to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Enforce technical standards on projects and support services.
  • Operate maintenance routines and follow up on incidents and product fixes.
Support Maintenance Partners

JUNIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

Prologic Tunisia · Tunisia

SEP 2019 – DEC 2019
  • Design and deploy a new network architecture for an e‑Gov client with multi‑vendor switches and Fortigate 500E firewalls.
  • Configure and troubleshoot EtherChannel, stacking, VLANs and firewall policies.
e‑Gov FortiGate 500E EtherChannel
  • Master’s Degree – Computer Science, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences · Germany.
  • Engineer’s Degree – Computer Engineering, TEK‑UP.
  • B.S. – Computer Science & Multimedia, Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax.

HUAWEI CERTIFIED SYSTEM INSTRUCTOR – CLOUD CAMPUS SOLUTION

SEP 2023
Huawei Cloud Campus SDN

CISCO CERTIFIED SPECIALIST – SECURITY CORE (CCNP‑SCOR)

JUN 2023
Cisco Security Core

FORTINET NETWORK SECURITY EXPERT 7 – ARCHITECT

JUN 2021
Fortinet NSE7 Architect

HCIE ROUTING & SWITCHING – WRITTEN

JUL 2020
Huawei HCIE Written

CERTIFIED ETHICAL HACKER V10 (CEH)

JUN 2020
Offensive Security
  • 3rd place – Huawei ICT Competition Global Final Network Track, Shenzhen (2020).
  • 2nd place – Huawei ICT Competition North Africa Regional Final (2020).
  • 1st place – Tunisia Huawei ICT 2019/2020 national competition out of 600 participants.
  • 4th place – Huawei National Final Competition 2018/2019 out of 750 participants.

Routing

OSPF, ISIS, BGP, RIP, EIGRP, static routing, redistribution, VRF.

Switching & MPLS

VLAN, STP, MSTP, LAN, MPLS LDP, MPLS VPN.

Security & Tunneling

L2VPN, L3VPN, IPSec, GRE, IDS, IPS.

Operating Systems

Windows, Ubuntu, EulerOS, SUSE Linux, CentOS.

Networking & NMS

DNS, DHCP, HA, WAN, SD‑WAN, HSRP, VRRP, TCP, AAA, WLAN, iMaster NCE, eSight, NetEco, eOMC.