SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Networking, Network design and administration, troubleshooting and testing on Confidential as a Network Test Engineer.
• A highly motivated individual with proven ability to learn fast, work well under pressure and ability to work in a team as well as independently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Confidential networking technologies and protocols.
• Familiar with Confidential IOS & NX - OS.
• Strong Knowledge of L2 & L3 protocols in Networking.
• Proficient handling Confidential Routers, Confidential Switches.
• Knowledge of voice communications technology and VoIP protocols
• Expertise in Configuration of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Confidential routers and multi-layer Switches and supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Confidential Routers (800, 2800, 2600, 3800, 7600) using Static, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP.
• Protocols Awareness: OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, BGP, HSRP, ACL, VTP, NAT/PAT, CDP, Telnet, SSH, HTTP, SNMP, ARP, STP (802.1D), SNMP, DNS & DHCP.
• Hands on Experience in physical cabling, IP addressing and sub netting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.
• Experience in the setup of Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP.
• Expertise in implementing Layer 2 technologies including VLAN’s, VTP, STP, RSTP, Trunking and Port-security, expertise on working with Ether-channel technology (LACP, PagPs).
• Extensive Knowledge of L2/L3 Multicast - IGMP, PIM.
• Manual testing and Automation of test cases.
• MTU test and fragmentation.
• Developed deployment solutions for network technologies including Optical VoIP, VPN, SAN switching and routing.
• Skilled in designing, planning and implementing LAN/WAN solutions.
• Proficient in technical and non-technical communication, both in oral and written.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and logical thinking skills.
• Network connectivity troubleshooting and configurations.
• Communicating and negotiating with users, specialists, other staff and suppliers.
• Expert level knowledge of inter networking technologies - Routing and Switching.
• Able and willing to work flexible hours when necessary.
• Extensive knowledge of Network System Engineering methods.
• Routing related tasks included providing Confidential router configuration providing technical support for Confidential Router configurations and installation for Customer. Configured IP, EIGRP and OSPF networks.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring 802.1Q on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft based operating systems, including Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista, Windows 7.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing Technology: RIP, RIPV2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, VOIP, TCP/IP, Static and Dynamic Routing.

Hardware: Confidential Routers 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800. Confidential High End Routers 3600, 3800, 7200, 12010, 12404. Confidential Switches 1900, 2950, 2950, 2960G. Confidential Campus Switches 3550XL, 4948 Core Catalyst 4503, 4507 RE, Catalyst 6500/6503/6507, Nexus 5k, Nexus 7K.

Antivirus & Endpoint protection: Confidential CSA, Symantec Enterprise Edition, MacAfee Enterprise Edition.

Scripting Languages: Python, TCL, VLAN, VTP, Inter vlan routing, ISL, 802.1Q, STP, RSTP, PVST, EthernetPort security.

Redundancy protocols: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Servers: Domain servers, DNS servers, WINS servers, Mail Servers, TFTP servers, Proxy Servers, Print Servers, Application servers, FTP Servers

Test Tools: Wireshark and Ixia

Operating Systems: Confidential IOS, Windows NT 4.0 (Desktop/Server), Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Windows XP/Windows 7/8, LINUX.

Confidential Certification: CSCO12918140. CCNA (Routing & Switching)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey city, NJ

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis and Rule Modification.
• Created Network diagram for Confidential / brocade switches.
• Worked with Cacti Network Monitoring tool for network Administration.
• Created alarms for the network devices (around 13,000 alarms, 260 devices).
• Updated firewall rules and provided support for checkpoint 13500 firewalls. Used checkpoint console 77.30 and 77.47. Also worked with ASA firewall ASDM.
• Involved in LAN team for Nexus-7010-Core (Layer 3) datacenter migration from Jersey City-NJ to Somerset-NJ. Used OSPF for internal routing.
• Experience working with LAN team for working on Layer-1 tickets.
• Involved in migration from catalyst 6509 to Nexus 7010.
• Involved in the Network documentation for internal usage and Support.
• Worked with .html codes to form a web based document for Network Support.
• Worked with Network Architect to build dynamic Network monitoring architecture which can major status and errors in/ errors out/ discards in/ discards out for all ports, links, devices etc.
• Configured tacacs+ server authentication on Confidential catalyst 2960 switches.
• Developed deployment solutions for network technologies including Optical VoIP, VPN, SAN switching and routing.
• Used Wireshark for packet capturing.
• Involved in Server migration from Confidential to Confidential .
• Involved in the Network Support for firewall and VPN.
• Install and maintain voice network systems and services .
• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, Spanning Tree, 802.1q. Configured IP access filter policies.
• Involved in configuring and implementing Checkpoint VSX firewalls.
• Performing the ACL requests change by collecting source and destination information from them.
• Supported wireless networking team working on Aruba wireless.
• Troubleshoot traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures.
• Configured RIP, PPP, BGP and OSPF routing.
• Provide support in configuring network access servers and routers for AAA Security (RADIUS/ TACACS+).
• Measured/ improved transmission rates, error rates, and other characteristics with the help of Qos.
• Experience working on Juniper based Mx series router, SRX 220 firewall.
• Supported Storage Area Network (SAN) and Storage system.
• Identify, design and implement flexible, responsive, and secure technology services.
• Implementation of F5 GTM solutions.
• Strong experience in managing F5 BIG-IP APM and LTM.
• Confidential ASA 5540 firewall experience creating access rules for various DMZ containers for both inbound and outbound traffic.
• Administer LAN security. Administration of firewalls and analyzing security threats with Service Manager Software.
• Worked on leveraging F5 LTMs & GTMs to improve web application delivery speed and replication.
• Maintained complex LAN/WAN networks with several VLANS and provided support for routing protocols and also provided secure sessions over internet using IPsec and SSL encryption.
• Performing troubleshooting on slow network connectivity issues, routing issues that involves OSPF, BGP and identifying the root cause of the issues.
• Implemented snmp in the cacti for Automated ping test every minute to all devices connected to cacti.
• Worked on DFA ( Confidential Dynamic Fabric Automation) for virtual machine and physical server deployment also on SAN for block-level storage that can be accessed by the applications running on any networked servers.

Environment: Confidential Catalyst 2960/3750/4500/6500 Series Switches, Confidential 3640/ 0/3845/3600/2800 routers, SQL, Confidential Nexus 7K, Exchange server 2013, Palo alto, Juniper M series router, Juniper QFX series switch, Confidential ASA 5500, Checkpoint firewalls, active directory, TACACS+, windows, ACL, SIP, RIP, OSPF, QoS, Microsoft Exchange server 2013, MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, WAN, WAP, IDS, IPS, VPN, SRX 240, Juniper MX, HSRP, OSPF, Cacti, Web-ex, OTV, automated tests, VRFs.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Serve as part of a team of network engineers responsible for base wide network troubleshooting of Confidential Layer 3, Layer 2 devices.
• Design, implement and administer IPv4 enterprise network infrastructure utilizing Confidential routers.
• Experience working with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud, involving VRF, Route Distinguisher (RD), Route Target (RT), Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) & MP-BGP
• Implemented antivirus and web filtering on Confidential devices.
• Experience working with cat6000, 6500, 7600 devices
• Identify, design and implement flexible, responsive, and secure technology services
• Experience in network security in a telecommunications environment.
• Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying NX-OS operation system with OSPF, BGP.
• Tests scope to include application modules, integration layer and full end-2-end testing incorporating various device & web-top clients
• Demonstrated that the video segmented system works reliably with the actual satellite network going through the core node, network infrastructure accelerator, and receive via satellite modem.
• Experience working with Transaction Language 1 (TL1), which is used as a management protocol in telecommunications.
• Experience converting Cat OS to Confidential IOS on the Confidential 6500 switches
• Experience with deploying PIM Sparse-mode/Dense-mode multicasting in Campus locations.
• Actively involved in Switching technology Administration including creating and managing VLANS, Port security- 802.1x, Trucking 802.1Q, RPVST+, Inter-VLAN routing, and LAN security on Confidential Catalyst Switches 4507R+E, 6509-E and Confidential Nexus Switches 2232, 5596, 7009.
• Configure Syslog on the Confidential ASA5505 with logging to a host and internal buffer. Forward all logging to an internal Syslog server for monitoring and management. Configure and manage Syslog output generation using custom message lists. Implement FTP backup of internal buffer when it is exceeded.
• Tested various networks, which works on the protocols like of TCP/IP (IP, TCP, UDP, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, SMTP, ARP, IPSEC, NAT).
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks
• Assisted in the installation of a new DS3 MPLS WAN backbone implemented throughout the entire corporate network.
• Worked on different phases of testing such as Sanity Testing, Functionality Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing and UAT Testing.
• Troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF & BGP, MPLS

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as Automation Engineer for PfR Project. Which deals with Performance Based Routing with the base as OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP and BGP Routing Protocols.
• Designing of automating test cases for dynamic input of data for test cases.
• Performing Performance and Scalability Testing for IGP Protocols like OSPF and EIGRP.
• Confidential products/hardware including Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches.
• IOS upgrade in Nexus 7010 through ISSU (In service software upgrade)
• Troubleshot VLANs, Virtual port channel (vPC) and configuration on Nexus 7k
• Troubleshot unicast and multicast traffic on Nexus 7k.
• Troubleshot Nexus 5k switch crash and SPAN configuration
• Configured VLANs, VLAN Trunking with 802.1Q, and Ether Channel for redundancy across distribution layer switches.
• Expertise in Design, Implementation and Support for large Lab networks involving various networking technologies and Confidential ’s networking products.

Environment: Juniper routers J2350, M10, Confidential routers 2600, 2800, 3200, Apache, UNIX, Active directory, IPS, VLAN, IDS, STP.

Confidential

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Having strong Knowledge with Confidential 1921/k9, 3750, 1800 series routers & 2950, 2960 series switches, Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k.
• Configured OSPF, STP, Ether-Channel, HSRP, IP and VLAN for Confidential routers & Switches.
• Familiar with Networking tools like Confidential IOS, Wireshark, Ping, Trace route, Speed Test.
• Experience in troubleshooting of Layer 2 features (VLAN, STP, RSTP, VRRP, and Ether Channel).
• Performing Manual Testing for the new Features in PFR and Building up the TestPlan based on the Manual Testing.
• Gained hands on experience with VLSM, STP, VTP, VLAN Trunking.
• Strong knowledge with Confidential Nexus OS & Confidential IOS.
• Quick learner with an excellent interpersonal, verbal/written communications, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Tracking and documenting daily work issues and communicating with rest of team.
• Implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting various routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF.

Environment: Confidential 2600, 2800 and 3200 series routers, Confidential 3300 and 2950 switches.