PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of experience as a Network Engineer with strong hands on experience in planning, designing, implementing, troubleshooting and optimization of WAN/LAN technologies such as Routing & Switching
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, Token ring, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and Switches
• Experience in L2/L3 protocols like VLANS, STP, VTP, MPLS and Trucking protocols.
• Well Experienced in configuring protocols HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP. Configured RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and WAN technologies like Frame Relay, VPN, DMVPN.
• Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server.
• Good knowledge in WAN Technologies like ACL, NAT and PAT, IPsec and VPNs.
• Knowledge of IP addressing and Subnetting (IPv4/6).
• Managing a TACACS server for VPN user authentication and network devices authentication
• Experienced in Troubleshooting for connectivity and hardware problems on Cisco Networks.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big - IP LTM-3900, and 6900 Load balancers.
• Performed security operations on ASA firewalls.
• Configured and troubleshooted Wireless Controllers like Aruba and Cisco Wireless LAN Controller
• Configuration and management of Cisco IDS, Checkpoint firewall, Snort.
• Performed deep packet analysis to troubleshoot application issues using tools like Wire-shark.
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Checkpoint Firewall and Juniper SSG series.
• Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewall & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series. Efficient at use of Microsoft VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools.
• Implemented Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and JuniperSRX Firewall in US offices and Datacenter
• Expertise in implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting STP, RSTP, PVST+, Ether channel using LACP and PAgP, Inter-VLAN routing.
• Hands on Experience in configuring, implementing and troubleshooting SDWAN devices like Velocloud and Versa Networks

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routers: Planning, Designing, Installing, Configuring of Cisco Routers 1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 3700, 3800Juniper MX

Switches: Cisco 2900, 2960, 3560, 3750,3850, 4500, 6500, Juniper EX 2200, 3300, 4200, 4300

Protocols: RIP (v1 and v2), IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP NAT, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS

Firewall: ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series, Juniper SRX, Netscreen SSG & ISG, Palo Alto

SDWAN & Wireless Controllers: Velocloud, Versa Networks, ruba Wireless Controller & Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Holmdel NJ

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise in functions such as vendor support services, network designing and planning.
• Conducted product evaluation, cost analysis and feasibility studies for proposed projects and network designs.
• Resolved issues relating to operational and design activities by data analysis and identification of problems.
• Suggested capacity planning techniques for optimal performance of network services.
• Evaluated network performance and activities to make necessary modifications to systems.
• Coordinated with internal technical groups for delivery of telecommunication services and network infrastructure.
• Hands on Experience working with ADTRAN Switches and Routers.
• Configured, implemented and troubleshooted different business policies in Velocloud SDWAN
• Assisted in research of existing industrial technologies for enhancement of network security and reliability.
• Developed project plans and related documentation in coordination with project managers.
• Assisted in effective operation and maintenance of enterprise-based network solutions and applications.
• Implemented procedures for configuration and management of routers, switches and firewall at local and remote sites.
• Experience on working with different ISP Carrier nationally as well as Internationally.
• Upgraded network equipment’s, software and hardware components and system configuration parts.
• Maintained technical detailed documentation of LAN and WAN systems and applications.
• Conducted analysis, designing and testing of converged network technologies and methods.
• Hands on Experience working with different Wireless controllers’ platform and AP’s like Aruba and Cisco.

Environment: Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Juniper switches, Routing protocols, Palo Alto, F5, Load Balancer HSRP, VRRP, IPSEC VPN, VPN, QOS, ASA firewall, Load balancer, MPLS, VLANS, VTP, RSTP, ACL, NAT, IDS/IPS, RTP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Juniper SRX, Juniper M, MX, ASR 9000, Catalyst 6500, Cisco ASR, Firewall FWS, Aruba Controller, Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, Velocloud SDWAN, Versa Networks, Brocade switches.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, installing, configurating and troubleshooting of networking infrastructure including routers, switches, and configuring all necessary LAN / WAN protocols in support of wireless infrastructure.
• Responsible for upgrading, swapping and installation of new juniper EX 4300 as well as Cisco 3850 to form a stack as well as adding new device in to existing stack.
• Network Cabling, designing, labeling and troubleshooting various network drops onsite.
• Configuring ISIS, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper EX and MX series Routers
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
• Designed, deployed and maintained enterprise networks and datacenters
• Configured, maintained, and troubleshot routers ranging from the 1720 series to 7200 series and Switches from the 2900 series through the 6500 series in a highly redundant dual-homed environment
• Supporting OSPF and BGP based network by resolving level two and level three problems of internal teams & external customers of different locations
• Worked on multiple projects related to Branch networks, Campus networks, external clients and Data Center Environments involving data center migrations.
• Hands on experience on Cisco prime infrastructure and Cisco stealth-watch
• Worked on the Migration project for security levels with AAA, TACACS+.
• Worked on Mojo Rogue sensor project connecting it to the POE 3850 Cisco switch
• Working on Network design and support, implementation related internal projects for establishing connectivity between the various field offices and data centers
• Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Involved in deployment of Cisco 6500 switches.

Environment: Juniper EX/MX, Cisco 6500/3850/3750/3600/2960/2950 switches, ASR 9000, TACACS, EIGRP, ISIS, OSPF, BGP, Ether Channels, DHCP, DNS, SNMP

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Integration, configuration and maintenance of Cisco Router, Catalyst Switches and Firewalls.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers.
• Responsible for all routing, switching, VPN, network security, and server load balancing.
• Implemented various EX, SRX & J series Juniper devices
• Have created lot of site to site IPSEC VPN tunnel with Checkpoint, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Cisco PIX/ASA firewalls. Completed a project to update the patch HFA50 across all the firewall to overcome the bugs in the existing version of R65.
• Responsible for 6500, 3500, Nexus 5500-7009 switching, ASA, FWSM Firewalls, CSS and F5 load balancers, Riverbed WAN accelerators, IronPort Proxy, and Linux/Bind DNS servers.
• Configuring various advanced features (Profiles, monitors, iRules, Redundancy, SSL Termination, Persistence, SNATs, HA on F5 BIGIP appliances SSL termination and initiation, Persistence, Digital Certificates, Executed various migration/upgrade projects across F5 and hands on with F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM.
• Configured PPP, HDLC, BGPv4, EIGRP, MPLS and OSPF routing.
• Configured CIDR, IP, RIP, PPP, BGP and OSPF routing
• Configured Juniper MX480s, EX8200s, EX4500s, EX4200s, from scratch to match design.
• Worked with the Trouble Tickets on F5 Load balancers on LTM module
• Provided technical support for full setup, debugged the problems of OSPF, switching and HSRP.
• Implemented and used SDM to configure Cisco IOS security features and network connection.
• Network Segmentation-application migrations for enterprise Private Data Firewall and data behind ASA 5585-Xs
• Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls for stable VPNs.
• Configured Object Grouping, Protocol Handling and Code up gradation on ASA Firewalls.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANs, VTP and configuring and maintaining multi VLAN environment and inter-VLAN routing on Fast-Ethernet channel. Worked with different vendors and implement Site-to-Site VPNs over the Internet.
• Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and configured, implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and JuniperSRX Firewall in US offices and Datacenter.
• Worked with Juniper T-Series, M-Series, MX-Series, J-Series Routers.
• Configured and monitored Firewall logging, DMZ’s and related security policies.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches, fixes, and all around technical support.
• Configuration of ACLs in Cisco 5540 series ASA firewall for Internet Access requests for servers in LAN and DMZ and also for special user requests as authorized by management.
• Involved in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter-VLAN routing, LAN security.
• Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols such as OSPF (v3, v2), RIPv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, HSRP, GLBP and MPLS.

Environment: Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Nexus 5500-7009, Routing protocols, Palo Alto, F5, Load Balancer HSRP, VRRP, IPSEC VPN, VPN, QOS, ASA firewall, Load balancer, MPLS, VLANS, VTP, RSTP, ACL, NAT, IDS/IPS, SIP, RTP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Juniper SRX, Juniper M, MX, ASR 9000, Catalyst 6500, CRS, Cisco ASR, UNIX, Firewall FWS

Confidential, Collegeville PA

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated the cisco legacy environment which consist of 6500, 4500 to Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k.
• Migrated old Nokia firewalls to standard HP hardware’s.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and Juniper SRX Firewall in US offices and Datacenter.
• Configuring & managing around 500+ Network &Security Devices that includes Cisco Routers & Switches, Nexus Switches, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 BigIP Load balancers, Blue Coat Proxies and Riverbed WAN Optimizers.
• Regular upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 9K, 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, BlueCoat Proxy and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
• Configuring various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Deployed the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 architecture into production securing competitive advantage across multiple verticals.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Juniper security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATTing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Converting CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches
• Convert Branch WAN links from TDM circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to Get VPN.
• Conversions to BGP WAN routing. Which will be to convert WAN routing from OSPF to BGP (OSPF is used for local routing only) which involves new wan links.
• Planning, Designing and assisting in deploying enterprise wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and Palo Alto firewall for the proper network routing for the B2Bnetwork connectivity.
• UDLD, Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1d, 802.1s and 802.1w.
• Experience of IP/MPLS/Optical Transmission network for access transport & back haul network to Facilitate 2/3/4G Network.
• Understanding of mobile backhaul network on IP, Ethernet, ATM, PW & TDM.
• Have completed two Business integrations with a very strict time line and gained some very good knowledge in understanding the road blocks in Network integration and feasible methods to fix it.

Environment: Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k, IPSEC, MPLS, VLANS VTP, RSTP, ACL, NAT, IDS/IPS, firewalls, Nokia, HP, Nexus Switches, Palo Alto, F5 BigIP Load balancers, Cisco ACE load balancers, Blue Coat Proxies, Riverbed WAN Optimizers, Data center, Spanning Tree, Juniper Routers, Juniper SRX, Network2/3/4G.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring Site-to-site and remote access VPN solutions.
• Installed and configured Cisco 7200 series router and Cisco 2950, 4500, 6500 Series switches.
• Configured network using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, and BGP and troubleshooting L2/L3 issues.
• Worked on multiple projects related to Branch networks, Campus networks, extranet clients and Data Center Environments involving in data center migrations from one data center to another.
• Provided estimated bandwidth requirements for data replication, to best determine adequate timing for migration service levels
• Created data migration strategies to help with completion of migration of data center from one point to another.
• Configuration of Cisco 6500 (sup 720), 4500 (SUP 6) & 3750 Catalyst Switches for network access.
• Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series, experience with convert PIX rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
• Time to time upgrade network connectivity between branch office and regional office with multiple link paths and routers running HRSRP, EIGRP in unequal cost load balancing to build resilient network.
• Design and implement Catalyst/ASA Firewall Service Module for various LAN’s.
• Key contribution includes troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, & BGP.
• Troubleshoots in Cisco Aironet 2700 and 600 series.
• Configured Client VPN and RSA Token ID technologies including Cisco’s VPN client via IPSEC.
• Configuring ACL to allow only authorized users to access the servers.
• Participated in on call support in troubleshooting the configuration and installation issues.
• Installation, maintenance, troubleshooting local and Wide Areas Network (ISDN, Frame relay, DDR, NAT, DHCP, TCP/IP).
• Provided technical support in terms of upgrading, improving and expanding the network.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960, switches and Cisco 3640/12000 /7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco ASA5510,F5 Load Balancer Cisco Nexus 7K/5K,Checkpoint,Cisco AS A.