PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Network Engineer with 7+ years of experience in network implementation, troubleshooting and managing of large - scale enterprise networks
• Comprehensive expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems
• Installing and Configuring Cisco switches 2960, 3560, 3850, 4500, 4900, 6500, Nexus 5000
• Strong analytical skills that help in interpreting complexities and finding solution
• Experience working with 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 4700, 4900 series Routers
• In-depth knowledge of networking principles including IPV4, IPV6, and sub netting
• WAN technologies (Frame Relay)
• Extensive hands-on experience with complex routed LAN and WAN networks. Experience of Routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPFand BGP
• Ensure that all devices are running up with templates
• Implement changes in configuration as per task within scheduled changed window and ensure backups of devices before and after the change
• Good knowledge about Vdc’s creation, assign and allocate them physical and logical resources
• Good knowledge about Fabricpath, Classical Ethernet
• Good knowledge of creation of VPC’s with different connectivities
• Knowledge about VPC+
• Expertise in Configuration of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Cisco 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.
• Strong knowledge of TACACS+, RADIUS implementation in Access Control Network
• Knowledge of Routers Levels and modes of routers and assign Levels to users and assign command under the Company’s requirement to keep the Network secure
• Local and Remote AAA
• Security networking PIX and ASA Firewall
• Knowledge of CISCO Context ASA firewall
• Experience with PIX Firewall Version 6.xxx
• Knowledge of Object ACL
• Good knowledge of Policy NAT / Policy translation
• Knowledge of port Forwarding concept
• Knowledge of Host Mapping concept
• Good Command on PIX Firewall Routing table, Translation and ACL
• Good knowledge of Static Routing and Troubleshooting
• Good knowledge of BGP and OSPF Troubleshoot
• Switching technologies (VLANs, Trunking, Spanning-Tree, RSTP, MSTP)
• Good command on switching protocols HSRP,VRRP,GLBP, Ether-channels
• Execute and implement network changes and infrastructure service requests related to routing and switching technologies in live
• Network Engineer with extensive experience in Network Engineering, Designing, Implementation, Administration, Operations and Troubleshooting IP networking technologies.
• Worked on Nexus platform 7010, 5K series (5548, 5020 and 5010) and FEX (2248, and 2232) and deployed VPC, VDC and OTV and successfully implemented VSS on the Cisco catalyst switches.
• Implemented and troubleshot firewall rules in Cisco ASA 5540, 5580, Check Point R77.20 Gaia as per the business requirements.
• Firewall technologies including general configuration, risk analysis, security policy, rules creation and modification of CheckPoint R65, R70 & R77, Palo Alto and Cisco ASA.
• Environment within specific time window on different network devices.
• Recognize, troubleshoot and escalate severe network issues within the change space as they occur.
• Monitored firewall logs in Check Point smart view tracker and captured packets in command line during troubleshooting.
• Provided support for 2Tier and 3Tier firewall architecture, which includes various Check Point and Cisco ASA firewalls.
• Configuring rules and maintaining Palo Alto firewalls & analysis of firewall logs using various tools.
• Experience converting Palo Alto VPN rules over to the CISCO ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and CISCO ASA VPN experience
• Document and update incident technical details on all issues into the ServiceNow ticketing system as well as update CITI's data management tools after all major network changes.
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K, 2k and its downstream devices.
• Used Palo Alto Dashboard to monitor servers and status of firewalls
• Cisco Catalyst switches 2900XL, 3505, 3800, 4500, 6509, Cisco routers 2600, 2500, 2800, 3900 and 7200, OSPF, EIRGP, GRE, IPSec, F5 BIG-IP LTM 3500.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, HSRP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• Excellent Verbal, written communication skills and Interpersonal skills with ability to work with large teams as well as independently with minimum supervision & Team Player

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Sonic Wall/Checkpoint/Net Screen/Cisco Firewalls, SSL, CDP, Cisco routers & switches, 3COM Routers & switches, Barracuda, HP, Compaq, Dell, and IBM Servers

Switches: Cisco Catalyst VSS 1440 / 6513 / 6509 / 4900 / 3750- X / 2960/6500/4500/3500 seriesRouters Cisco Routers ASR 1002 / 7606 / 7304 / 7206 / 3945 / 2951 / 2600

Firewall: ASA 5585/5520, FWSM, Checkpoint 4200/Palo Alto/Nokia IP-560, Cisco PIX 535/525. Juniper SRX, Juniper IDP, Juniper STRM/JSA

Server Applications: VMWare, MS SQL, ConnectWise, Remedy, SonicWall SGMS, MS ISA, MS Exchange, MS IIS, MS SharePoint, MS Proxy, MS SMS, Backup Exec, Symantec AV, Trend Micro AV, Avast AV

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 & 8, Terminal Server, Citrix, Windows 2003 & 2008

Networking: NAT, PAT,VTP, VLAN, L2TP, PPTP, RDP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, UDP, ARP, NTP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, VoIP, SIP, SSL, VPN, ESP, 802.11 Wireless, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, ICMP

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, Delaware

Network Engineer

• Monitoring the network
• Responsible for routine /non routine checks to meet company objectives and standards reliability with excellent communication skills
• Work as a backup trainer for new employees
• Network Monitoring and creating Ticket for Router and switches
• Working with Layer 2 Technology vlan’s, Ether-Channels, Port-channels
• Troubleshoot of Routing Protocols EIGRP, OSPF, BGP etc
• Level 1 troubleshooting of routers and switches
• Application Monitoring NNMI, NNMX, Cribmaster, ATH etc
• 3 Year experience with HP Service Manager Ticketing Tool
• Good Experience and knowledge with BSM and BPM Reports
• Working with NNMi and NNMX for Network Topology Map
• Contacting with Service Provider Carrier for Circuit Issue like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential
• Creating tickets for International Circuit and Sites Issues, making contact with International Providers like SITA, TATA, BT etc
• Handling and Working with Weather warning Alerts
• F5 load balancing tickets
• F5 BIGIP and GTM monitoring alerts and create tickets for F5 Load balancers, Pool, Pool members and Wide IP
• Troubleshooting of networking equipments
• Communicate with the users and perform an analysis to evaluate the technical needs of the organization
• Ensure that the network infrastructure is well managed and maintained and that it functions without interruptions
• Perform duties as necessary for network address, routing table configuration, authorization of directory services, etc

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Perform network engineering, design, planning (WAN & LAN) & implementation. Studied single point of failure & designed WAN structure in such a way that there are no failures in network in case of any device or link failure
• Experience in testing Cisco routers and switches in laboratory and deploy them on site production.
• Hands on experience on inspection, data loss prevention, content caching and bandwidth management using bluecoat proxy
• Worked on Remedy ticketing systems
• Experience working with BGP attributes such as Weight, Local-Preference, MED and AS-PATH to influence inbound and outbound traffic
• Troubleshooting of routers and switches
• Providing technical assistance and support to Cisco customers on 3925, 3800 routers.
• Implemented VTP and Trunking protocols (802.1q and ISL) on 3560, 3750 and 4500 series Cisco Catalyst switches.
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, GRE Tunnel, VLAN).
• Tested authentication in RIPv2, OSPF and BGP.
• Install, maintain and network copy machines and printers
• Tested BGP features such as EBGP load balancing.
• Perform Active Directory administration including group policy and (moves/adds/changes) of user accounts, security groups, and distribution lists.
• Responsible for the deployment of the Operating System and core (“base setup”) files as instructed in the Setup Guide.
• Experience on Cisco IOS and Upgrading Cisco IOS using TFTP server.
• Designed and implemented Spanning-Tree Feature - Port Fast, Backbone Fast, Uplink Fast Loop Guards,
• BPDU Guards, and Root Guard's.
• Worked on various Sniffing tools like Ethereal, Packet Sniffer, Wireshark
• Backups of Cisco router configuration files to a TFTP server.
• Involved in SNMP Network management.
• Configured and troubleshoot RIPv2, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP.
• Configured and supported Multicast customers.
• Planning and configuring the entire IP addressing plan for the client's network.
• Assist the certification team and perform configuration of LAN\WAN technologies such as Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet.
• Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.
• Working on VMware Workstation and assign commands and levels to users as per Supervisor instruction so network will remain stable from unnecessary traffic
• Control the traffic of company’s users
• Physical and logical configuration as per projects
• Monitoring application TABS, Zem view, FNF etc
• Visit the site, find problems and fix the Issues with team work
• Responsible for documentation using Visio, Excel & MS word and supporting other teams

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Handled more than 250+ security devices and upgrades.
• Hands on experience in Implementation, Troubleshooting &configuring Cisco ASA 5500-X Series.
• Worked on ASDM for VPN on Cisco Firewall and firewall rule analysis and firewall rules cleanup.
• Firewall deployment, rules migrations, firewall administration and converting existing rule based onto new Checkpoint and Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall platforms.
• Provide the production support in the data center nexus switches and related technologies and troubleshoot and support the datacenter devices.
• Implement, upgrade & tests WAN, carrier, or enterprise level network equipment, devices, & systems
• Gathering application information which are using Splunk tool and analyze their bandwidth traffic.
• Build and implement Cisco best practices configuration on all the network devices.
• Diagnose routing issues in the wan backbone and Assist in WAN and LAN infrastructure (Cisco).
• Experience in deploying new technologies to Data Center and Branch offices including firewall, NAC, and Switching - Routing technologies
• Experience in Routing and Switching, protocols including TCP/IP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, static routing, familiar with BGP and MPLS and OSPF.
• Assisting the NAC team with adding new sites to the Cisco Clean Access Manager (CAM).
• Perform IOS upgradation on routers & Switches and responsible for configuring the dynamic routing from static routing. Experience on layer 3 routing and layer 2 switching.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus7000, 5000, 2000 series switches including VPC & VDC technologies.
• Hands on experience in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3750, 4500, 6500 and Nexus 3000, 5000, 6000, 7000 series switches and Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200, 7600 series routers, Load Balancers & Cisco Firewalls.
• Monitor WAN performance and performance of WAN support systems to ensure effective and reliable service availability.
• Worked on Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 Catalyst 4500, 6509, 7613 switches, 6500, 7200VXR, ASR 1002, 1006 router.
• Administered and maintained network and phone systems. Systems included multiple LAN or WAN, Telephony/VOIP, routers, switches and /or gateways to other LAN's or WAN's
• Key responsibility of LAN and WAN maintenance and troubleshooting any network related problems.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency in the use of Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Responding and resolving change request action and incident tickets and outages.