IT NETWORK SPECIALIST / DATA CENTER NETWORK SPECIALIST

Over 9 years as IT Network Professional with proven success in Architect, Designing, Configuring, Troubleshooting, Maintaining Data Center, LAN / Wide Area Networks.

• Specialized in day-to-day Network Operations in Enterprise Data Centre Environments.

• Proven expertise in Data Center, LAN / WAN administration and support under Cisco Routers, Switches, NEXUS, Checkpoint Firewall, ASA Firewall, Juniper Firewall, Blue Coat URL Filtering, Wan Accelerator, Cisco Load Balancer - CSS, Infinistream Sniffer, Windows, VMWare, Unix Servers.
• Architect, Design, document, prepare network infrastructure project report and perform technical coordination between Management and other IT technical engineering groups, supporting new project proposals, installation, and modification through change management.

• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco 6500, 4500 series routers and switches. Provide switching and routing support using VLAN, STP, VTP, HSRP, ACL, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, QOS.
• Configure firewall rules for the DMZ using Cisco ASA 5500, Checkpoint NGX R70 Firewall, Palo Alto, Juniper SSG Firewall. Enable IPS, analyze logs to prevent intruders, hacking.
• Design, provide switch port support for Server’s production, backup, rilo interfaces and assign them appropriate VLAN, VMWare server’s trunk switch ports, SAN, CBI server’s port channels.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco 11500 Series Content Services Switch and thus enable Application Load Balancing between cluster servers.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot advanced Cisco NEXUS 5020 series switches and thus associate Cisco NEXUS 2000 Series Fabric Extenders for Server switch port connections.
• Provide data analysis and advanced network support for Server Administrators to solve high end application issues by capturing traces for the traffic between the servers using Infinistream Sniffer.

• Maintained high level of Service Level Agreement on production systems and anticipating future requirements, current trends, industry best practices to assure current and future needs within budget.
• Demonstrated ability to satisfy users through analysis and quick problem resolution. Recognized as the “go-to-person” for immediate resolution to network related issues.

Master of Computer Applications,

Cisco Certified Network Professional.

TECHNICAL PROFILE

Networking:
Routers: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, WAN, Catalyst OS, IOS, Nexus OS.
Firewall: Checkpoint NGX R70, Palo Alto, Juniper SSG, Cisco ASA, FWSM.
Switches: LAN, VLAN, Trunks, Port Channels, HSRP.
Cisco Content Services Switch: Load Balancing, Services, Contents.
Servers: Windows 2003/ 2008 Server, Unix, VMWare, AD, DNS, IIS, Domain.

Confidential,U.S.A Sept’11 – Present

IT Network Architect

• Design, prepare network infrastructure project report and perform technical coordination between Management, Vendors and other IT technical groups, supporting new project proposals, installation, and modification through change management.
• Design, prepare project plan for DMZ upgrade project from old Nokia devices to Checkpoint hardware. Re-architect DMZ with Cisco ASA 5500 with Intrusion Prevention System best practices.
• Co-ordinated with McAfee – Foundstone ethical hacking/penetration risk assessment test project for understanding present corporate security risks from external and internal threats perspective. Prepare project plan to remediate risks identified from the Foundstone report.
• Design, configure Bluecoat url content filter, Create corporate Internet filtering policies.
• Analyzed Risk Assessment for VMWare servers to be deployed in DMZ and prepared best practices for the Server, Network configurations.
• Provide data analysis and advanced network support for Server Administrators to solve high end application issues by capturing traces for the traffic between the servers using Sniffer traces.

IT Network Consultant

• Design, prepare network infrastructure project report and perform technical coordination between Management, vendors and other IT technical engineering groups, supporting new project proposals, installation, and modification through change management.
• Monitored new built infrastructure for LAN and Data Center expansion and transition projects.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco 6500 series routers and switches. Provide switching and routing support for the Data Center LAN using VLAN, STP, VTP, HSRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco 11500 Series Content Services Switch and thus enable Load Balancing between cluster servers.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot advanced Cisco NEXUS 5020 series switches and thus associate Cisco NEXUS 2000 Series Fabric Extenders for Server switch port connections.
• Configure firewall rules for the DMZ using Cisco ASA 5500, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper SSG.
• Provide data analysis and advanced network support for Server Administrators to solve high end application issues by capturing traces for the traffic between the servers using Sniffer traces.

Datacenter Network Specialist

• Maintained high level of network infrastructure SLA on production systems and anticipating future requirements, current trends, industry best practices to assure current and future satisfaction.
• Provide Level 3 support and troubleshoot Cisco 6500 series routers and switches. Provide switching and routing support for the Data Center LAN using STP, HSRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Provide switch port support for Server’s production, cbi, rilo interfaces and assign them appropriate VLAN, VMWare server’s trunk switch ports, CBI server’s port channels.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot Cisco 11500 Series Content Services Switch and thus enable Load Balancing between cluster servers.
• Provide support to DMZ Checkpoint Firewall and PCI Cisco ASA 5500, Cisco FWSM.
• Configure, maintain and troubleshoot advanced Cisco NEXUS 5020 series switches and thus associate Cisco NEXUS 2000 Series Fabric Extenders for Server switch port connections.
• Provide analysis and advanced network support for Server Administrators to solve high end server issues by capturing Sniffer Traces for the network traffic between the servers.

Datacenter Network Specialist

• Implementation, maintenance and troubleshoot Cisco 4500, 6500 Series Routers and Switches, Cisco VPN Concentrator.
• Configured EIGRP and static routes at backbone routers for servers to communicate with other WAN location with Route redistribution.
• Configured OSPF for Z9 Mainframe environment and provide no network drops between failovers.
• Specialized in configuring and troubleshooting of switch protocols VLAN, VTP, STP using Catalyst OS and connect to the routers with IOS.
• Implementation, maintenance and troubleshoot Cisco 11500 Series Content Services Switch and thus enable Load Balancing between mirror servers.
• Provide analysis and advanced network support for Server Administrators to solve high end server issues by capturing Sniffer Traces for the network traffic between the servers.

Network Administrator

• Implementation maintenance and troubleshoot Cisco 2800, 3800, 7600 Series Routers and Cisco 2900, 4500, 6500 Series Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall.
• Configured OSPF and static routes at backbone routers for servers to communicate with other WAN location with Route redistribution.
• Implementation and maintenanceof Cisco PIX Firewall, Juniper Firewall, creating policies.
• Configuration and Maintenance of multi location IPSec Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity.
• Install, troubleshoot, and monitor core services such as IIS, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, group policy, SQL Server.
• 24/7 support to the servers Using the Monitor-IT tool to monitor the servers and services and if any service or server fails then it is automated to alert me by sms.